General view of HGV lorries
DANGEROUS and potentially unlawful plans to impose a fresh extension of lorry drivers’ hours must be dropped, Unite says.
The union understands that the government is undertaking a “technical consultation” on continuing to allow drivers to work shifts of up to 11 hours rather than 10 and up to 99 hours a fortnight rather than 90.
Unite has voiced concern that the extended driving hours, brought in to tackle the shortage of lorry drivers, is having a cumulative effect on driver fatigue.
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
