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;cots threaten lay guidelines
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LLENGES to the Government's five per cent pay policy are ng from drivers and garage staff in two important sectors ottish road transport.
eater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive's 700 tenance staff gave notice of strike action from Wednesday is week if management did not better a five per cent offer.
tey are believed to be ng a rise in excess of 40 cent, and have banned :ime as an initial protest ist the executive's refusal aet their demand.
e men want their £50 per c. basic wage to be raised ,0 with increases in bonus, days, industrial injury nents, and an extension of free travel concessions.
3PTE director of indust-elations Joe Coyle said of ; with the unions involved: "I do not wish to prejudge the outcome, but we are nevertheless bound to observe the Government's guidelines."
Meanwhile, Scottish lorry drives have submitted a substantial wage claim which is believed to breach the guidelines.
Figures of between 20 and 40 per cent have been mentioned in connection with the claim which is due to be resolved by November 1, but a Road Haulage Association spokesman refused to put a figure on it when CM spoke to him this week.
No Transport and General Workers Union official was available for comment.
But Scottish RHA chairman John Hunt has spoken out against Government interference in wage negotiations by saying: "I grossly resent the attitude of a Government which forces an industry, any industry, into a situation where they are the punch-ball between the workers and the Exchequer's need to control inflation."
Both sides are meeting again next week, when it is anticipated that more details will be made available.