Drivers to "Go Slow" From Monday?
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NyIONDAY is the day set by a meeting In of shop stewards in London last week-end for an unofficial ban by lorry drivers on overtime and shift work if the employers do not yield to certain demands before then. The demands were understood to be; a basic mirtimurh wage of £10 a week, a 40-hour week, no redundancy and no implementation of the 30 m.p.h. speed limit for heavy goods vehicles.
There have been varied reports about the number of men who attended the meeting, which was said to be stormy. According to one observer there were only 80 men present, but other sources gave the attendance figures as 150 and 400.
An official of the Transport and General Workers' Union told The Commercial Motor on Tuesday that all the points raised at the meeting were the subject of negotiation by the responsible bodies.
"BRIGGS FORMULA" SETTLES COVENT GARDEN STRIKE
I—I A STRIKE involving some 500 lorry drivers working in Covent Garden, London (The Commercial Motor last week) ended at the .week-end after an agreement had_ been reached between the workers and the employers.
The stoppage, which was unofficial, arose out of disputes in two haulage companies, Harrison James and Co., Ltd., and S. A. Hartz, Ltd. One concerned a driver who was dismissed for refusing to carry a load which he claimed was "too large," and the other a foreman fitter to whom the men objected.
The proposals for the basis of a settlement provided that the dismissed driver and the foreman be suspended on pay until 'agreement was reached on * their future employment.
FUEL COMPLAINTS REMEDIED rOMPLAINTS made by the -National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses about the disparity in fuel supplies made to hauliers in certain different traffic areas have been investigated by the Minister of Transport. He has told the Conference that additional temporary staff have been recruited in the North Western Area to deal with arrears of work.
In the West Midland and East Midland Areas he has made extra supplies available to bring them up to the general level of the rest of the country.
COMPANY BUSMEN'S PAY TALKS
IT is understood that the unions will I state their case for a . substantial increase in the pay of 100,000 employees of provincial bus companies at a meetting of the full National Council for the Omnibus Industry on March 19. No figure was given in the unions' claim made three weeks ago (The Commercial Motor, February 22).