Sympathy strike finds none at RHA
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)AD HAULAGE could be disrupted for one day next month, if a ades Union Congress call for a transport strike in support of Mona! Health Service workers is obeyed. Details of the action lye still to be finalised.
The TUC has asked transport gkers to stage the strike, probly next month, but apart from eking assistance from unions a the Transport and General,
Workers Union, it has made no detailed plans. It is anticipated that the TUC transport committee will discuss the matter this month, and that further plans will be known then.
TGWU commercial group secretary Jack Ashwell told CM that he has still to be briefed on the proposal, and said he did not know whether drivers would be instructed or merely be advised to participate in action.
But the Road Haulage Association has already urged its members to persuade their drivers not to take part in the action which, it believes, is against their own long-term interests.
Condemning the proposed !strike, the RHA national council said last week: "Despite having sympathy with Britain's nurses, we consider it iniquitous that road haulage services should be interrupted in a cause which has nothing to do with transport."
The council pointed out that road haulage unemployment is already high, and said any action which will worsen matters "is to be regretted".
"The RHA is sure that in the present depressed state of the industry, drivers will not wish to take action which will damage their own interests as well as those of their employers," it added.