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THE LAST bastion of trades union opposition to the tachograph was removed last week when the Transport and General Workers' Union gave its negotiators freedom to seek extra payments for co-operating in the use of the instruments.
The Union's road transport commercial group committee agreed last week to lift its sanction whereby tachograph charts would be kept by a shop steward (CM, February 2, 1980), provided that extra remuneration is made available to the drivers.
No sum has been placed on the amount of any tachograph bonus, and the employers' line is likely to remain that they will talk about rewarding drivers for productivity improvements which result from fitting the tachos, but that they will not pay drivers extra for simply keeping to the law.