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Removers protest over pay council
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OBJECTIONS to the abolition of the Road Haulage Wages Council have come from the British Association of Removers this week.
In a letter to Employment Secretary, Albert Booth, BAR general secretary Hugh Wilson says that the functioning of the Council has been made more difficult by Government pay policies but it will be needed when there is a return to free collective bargaining.
"We view with some alarm the prospect of there being no nationally recognised base wage rate capable of being enforced statutorily," says Mr Wilson.
He claims that it will mean a "mosaic" of wage rates nationwide which would make it difficult for reputable removers to defend their trading position against "fly-by-night" operators. Under the new situation the reputable firms would be open to force by the unions to push up wage rates while small "cowboy" operators would escape.
BAR also cited the "number of other conditions that have been established over the years by the Council" which it 'Says cannot now be enforced if the Council is swept away and which BAR feel would be detrimental to industrial relations if lost.
The Association want the Council either retained in its present form or converted to become a Statutory Joint Industrial Council.