Recommended drivers' rise in East Midlands beats the West
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• Truck drivers in the East Midlands and the West are likely to receive different pay and conditions as part of a bargainIng report published by the Labour Research Department last month.
There is a disparity between the two areas because the Joint Industrial Councils—which are made up of union officials and RHA members—act independently. The Joint Industrial Councils suggest rates of pay and holiday allowances for drivers, but hauliers are not legally forced to implement these recommendations.
The JIC in the West Midlands region of the BRA recommended a drivers pay rise of 4.2% for a 40-hour week, compared with a 3.1% rise in the association's East Midlands area. But the JIC in the East Midlands recommended that drivers should get 21 days annual holiday, while the West Midlands JIC suggested 20 days.
Pay and holiday recommendations in the West Midlands are frozen until the end of 2000 under a three-year agreement between BRA members and the Transport & General Workers Union.
Liam Boyle, acting joint secretary of the East Midlands JIC, says: "The Joint Industrial Councils are a forum; the main purpose is to determine rates of pay They all vary slightly because the JICs are independent. Market forces will always dictate the rate of pay"