Pay rates and carbon tax should not be mixed: ALC

The Australian Logistics Council (ALC) has called on government and industry to reject an attempt by the Transport Workers Union (TWU) to use the proposed carbon tax as a Trojan horse to introduce Safe Rates into the transport industry.

“The TWU’s campaign to use the carbon tax to pressure the government on Safe Rates is a clever ploy, but in reality, the two are very separate issues and should be treated as such,” ALC chief executive Michael Kilgariff said.

“It is disingenuous to argue, as the TWU does, that cost increases in the heavy vehicle industry brought about by a carbon price justify the introduction of a highly regulated rate setting regime for truck drivers,” he said.

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