Haulage Pay Rise on January 16
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THE Minister of Labour has signed the Order authorizing an increase in wages for nearly 130,000 road haulage employees. The increase, which will add 5 per cent to the rates that came into force on January I Last, will take effect on January 16, 1963. Copies of. the Order, numbered R.H.(74), are expected to be available on January 11.
Grade 2 now having been eliminated, the 5 per cent increase will applyto Grade 1 and London rates; and will be rounded off to the nearest 3d., while maintaining existing differentials. The minimum weekly rate in most urban areas from January 16 will be about £9 7s,
Drivers in Grade I will get increases ranging from 9s, 3d. to 10s. 3d. London area drivers of, for example, 5-tonners, . will get a basic rate of £9 17s. 6d. instead of £9 8s. 3d. Drivers of 15-18-tonners in the London area will get a rise of 10s. 3d. to £11 Os. 6d.
Meanwhile the answer to a parallel claim on behalf of •British Road Services employees awaits the result of a further meeting.
C-LICENCE INCREASES Transport employees in the C-licensed field are not, of course, covered by the Wages Council, through whose Order the haulage pay increases „have been made, but they usually fall into line and the first agreements awarding pay rises to keep in step have already been negotiated.
Details of some of the recent agreements are revealed in the T.G.W.U. Record.
As a result of talks between the Transport and General Workers' Union and members of the bovd of C.W.S., the basic rates of the company's drivers have been increased from 9s. to 10s. 3d. per week, according to vehicle, classification.
• The new rates came into operation on December 3.
For example, drivers of vehicles of up to and including 5 tons carrying capacity nem, receive £10 9s. 6d. in London and
£10 2s. 6d. in the provinces; and drivers of vehicles of over 10 tons and up to arid including 15 tons carrying capacity now receive Ell 13. 6d, in London and £11 Os. 6d. in the provinces.
Following the announcement last month that Nestles Ltd. would pay double time for all Sunday work, the adult male rate has been increased by 3d. per hour, all workers on shift work will be paid 5d. per hour more for every hour worked and, in addition to this, all those on nightwork have been awarded an additional 8d. per hour for all hours worked between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.
The lls. basic rate rise and the elimination of a grade in the flour milling industry have been approved by the transport sub-committee of the N.J.I.C. Sonic examples of the rates current from November 26 are; drivers of vehicles of up to and including 2 tons carrying capacity £10 12s. 6d. (A mill), £10 9s. 6d. (B mill), £10 7s. (C mill); drivers of vehicles of over 8 tons and up to and including • 16 tons carrying capacity, £11 15s. (A mill), £11 1 Is. 6d. (B rnill), I Rs. (C mill). .
Other wage increaSes announced are an increase of 12s. per week for drivers of Lewis's Ltd. and an increase of 9s. 3d. per week for drivers employed by H. and G. Simonds Ltd.
Prolonged
THE Minister of Transport has made an order providing that the British Transport Commission shall remain formally in existence until April 1, 1963, for the sole purpose of completing the transfer of its property and rights to the new Boards and Holding Company.