Ministers and HGV bosses ‘must act on driver crisis or face strikes,’ says union
General view of HGV lorries
MINISTERS and bosses must stop “dragging their feet” on the HGV driver crisis or face growing shortages and the prospect of industrial action, the Unite union said today.
The union demanded tripartite talks to tackle the underlying causes of a shortage, calculated by the Road Haulage Association to be 100,000 drivers.
And it warned that gaps already being seen on supermarket shelves will get worse if drivers worked to exhaustion for chronically low pay are forced into balloting for industrial action.
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