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PRODUCTIVITY was an unpopular word at the Alveston Manor Hotel, Stratford-uponAvon, yesterday.

British Road Services drivers who had gathered to hear the outcome of a meeting between the company and their union official, Alan Law of the Transport and General Workers, stressed that a productivity deal would not meet their demands.

The drivers want a £2.50 bonus for holding heavy goods vehicles (HGV) licences, which they are now required to hold by law.

BRS is refusing to pay the bonus-now standard at private haulage firms in the Midlands region-and the men have handed their licences in to the T&GWU.

Though they are reporting for work each day, BRS cannot send them out on the road in the big lorries serving the motor industry and is refusing to pay them.

Early yesterday afternoon, the drivers were still waiting to see an 11-page document setting out management demands for productivity • concessions in return for the increase.

They talk about productivity, but what productivity can we give?' asked T&GWU branch secretary Harry Shorter.

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'Even if we accepted some fairly mild form of productivity I don't think it would be acceptable to many of our members back at the depots.

'This is the first week we've had no pay at all, and the men have been meeting the same kind of hard-line attitude at the Social I know of a man with five children, years in the industry, who has been sent away with a few shillings: "You're on strike", they say.

'Our bonus agreements are all based already on average speed of 28 miles an hour, which is just impossible when you have to pass through traffic. We can't go any faster.

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