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DRE than 150 chanting drivers picketed the Birmingham Hee of Transport and General Workers Union last !ek demanding the removal of Regional Trade Group Secre-y Alan Law from his job.
Inside the building Mr Law was meeting a union committee to ;cuss his future.
He is still subject to a police quiry into ballot rigging thin the union and has ready resigned from his her post as area secretary len he lost his unique dode role as the West Midlands ;WU supremo.
The demonstration comes the union is formulating its tim for the annual round of tge negotiations — and this thought to be around the 20 r cent mark although it has 11 to be lodged.
And this will be the first time his 20 years as union chief in rmingham that Mr Law has I personally conducted the gotiations. It is thought that. ey will be carried on by Mr iw's successor, Brian Mather.
West Midlands hauliers were among the first to breach the Government's pay guidelines in the last round of negotiations and it seems likely that they could be among the first again this year.
The union's pay claim is already late and pay agreements established last year are set to expire within the next month leaving little time for negotiation.
The drivers demonstration is symptomatic of discontent within the powerful 5/35 branch of the TGWU in Birmingham which was reporganised earlier this year after allegations that £80,000 was missing from union funds.
It is not the first time that drivers have sought to take action against Mr Law personally — earlier this year they picketed an office where he was meeting members.
One demonstrating driver said during the latest incident, "It's quite simple — we want a change of officer."