werpool: 58 agree and Ulster settles
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FTY-EIGHT Liverpool .uliers had signed £6 wage crease agreements with the ransport and General 'orkers' Union by Monday is week, according to the lion.
Liverpool haulage officer n Gouldborne told CM that ost hauliers in the city have pied individual agreements hich increase the 40-hour isie rate for 32.5-tonne dcles to :111.50 and for 38nne vehicles to £115.50. Overnight subsistence rises by 75p to £13, but no other elements of the 1985 agreement have been altered.
According to Gouldborne, "one or two" operators had refused to sign individual company agreements, following the refusal of hauliers to negotiate collectively with the TGWU.
The TGWU has threatened industrial action against companies which do not pay the increase.
Northern Ireland hire or reward drivers are being advised to accept a £6 wage increase in line with those offered in the rest of the United Kingdom.
Transport and General Workers Union negotiators are recommending acceptance of the Road Transport Association's offer to increase the 32.5-tonne 40-hour rate by 5.8 per cent to 009.50 and the 38-ronne rate by 5.5 per cent to 1:115.50.