1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204 
Anger on pay front
Page 5
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
UNION LEADERS have reacted angrily to British Road Services group managing director David White's suggestion that haulage wages have outstripped inflation, writes MIKE RUTHERFORD.
Mr White made his controversial statement in London last month and said that, as a nation, we need to make every effort to hold transport costs at a realistic level. "There is a lot of competition and we have to keep ahead of it,he said.
"Wages in the industry have now outstripped inflation and I fear that if wage aspirations are not moderated in 1980, employment prospects will be affected.'" United Road Transport Union general secretaryJackson Moore disputes Mr White's knowledge about the level of payments being made by hauliers. "He is no position to talk for the industry which is very segmented."
Mr Moore said that with so many separate agreements, Mr White is not qualified to comment on agreements that he knows nothing about_ He went on to say that Mr White can only concern himself with BRS which has not "been over-generous" in wage deals in the past.
Its not on. I reject the suggestion that wages are in excess or even level with the rate of inflation,he said.
Transport and General Workers Union commercial group secretary Jack Ashwell remains equally unimpressed with Mr White's statement. "I cannot understand it,he said.' 'The last pay settlement at BRS doesn't even correspond with the inflati9n rate:"
On January 1 this year, BRS drivers received a wage increase of 20.3 per cent. The inflation rate was then 18.4 per cent, but is now running at 21.9 per cent.