iobby promises Dock Bill r tough passage
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tOUGHRIDERS
-IE Government's Dock Work Regulation Bill scraped through third reading on Tuesday with a majority of just three votes but it still faces a rough ride in the House of Lords.
A combined transport lobby being put together to fight it the House of Lords in an fort to defeat the five-mils ide corridor surrounding ivigable waters in which all arehousing and loading jobs !long to dockers.
Using the guillotine proceire, Leader of the House ichael Foot nursed the Bill rough the third reading, !feating Conservative nendments that would have owed an appeal procedure. The amendment provided r a tribunal to which both sployers and dockers would able to go if they felt that a b was incorrectly classified dock work or the work of hers.
But this week the Bill was undly condemned by both e Road Haulage Association d Freight Transport Asso ciation director-general Hugh Featherstone.
Mr Featherstone commented: "We regard the Bill as almost as disastrous as when it started out. We can only hope it will be changed in the Lords."
An RHA spokesman said: "I don't know about the assurance that the Bill won't be used against other workers; verbal assurances aren't worth the paper they're written on.
"The Bill is no better than when it started out — and we are just as much opposed to it. We have a working party studying the Bill and they will now be focusing their attention on it in the House of. Lords."
Both associations are to contest the Bill in the next stage of its passage.