Union threat to drivers
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A NORTH-EAST union official has submitted that he is willing to force road haulage firms into bankruptcy if they continue to cross miners' picket lines.
Scores of drivers are earning anything up to £60 a day for delivering North-East coal to besieged Ravenscraig steel plant in Scotland, according to informed sources.
But even if the Transport and General Workers Union cannot halt the drivers and small firms during the current dispute it will .take action after a settlement, the union's regional organiser has warned.
"These people are making a fortune while the wives and children of miners starve," slammed Joe Mills. "Many are getting £60 a day." And he promised the drivers would lose their union cards once the dispute had ended.
"With no union membership they will be banned from every colliery and every port in the country," he added. "And that means they will not be able to work.
"It is their own livelihoods they are throwing away."