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“It is THE way for us to develop talent that supports the Ind圜ar series and the 500-mile race in Indianapolis. “The Mazda Road to Indy from an Ind圜ar and, frankly, from an Indianapolis 500 perspective is priceless,” said Mark Miles, CEO of Hulman & Company, the parent company of INDYCAR. The season-ending Verizon Ind圜ar Series finale witnessed 16 of 22 starters as graduates including newly crowned champion Josef Newgarden, who claimed the 2011 Indy Lights title. 2016 Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires champion Ed Jones finished an impressive third and 2015 Indy Lights race winner Max Chilton fourth.

#Ups driver pay progression 2017 drivers#

The relevance of the Mazda Road to Indy in assisting drivers to the pinnacle of the sport was highlighted in the 101st running of the Indianapolis 500 where 24 of the 33 starters were graduates of the program. Sign up to our newsletter to receive a regular digest of Fora’s top articles delivered to your inbox.The Mazda Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires – the most effective driver development platform in the world – concluded its best season to date this month with thrilling championship battles punctuated by thriving off-track initiatives that firmly position the INDYCAR-sanctioned ladder series for future growth and global presence. Many Irish industries have already faced industrial action as the economy recovers and workers seek wage increases. Over 50 crane drivers who are Unite union members there rejected an offer of a 3% pay rise from their employer, building firm HTC Wolffkran. The union is now balloting its UK members for industrial action. Unite, which has a large UK operation, has also recently submitted pay claims for crane drivers in the UK.

“We hope that they (the construction industry) will agree but we have legislated for the prospect of industrial action if required. “There has been nine years of pay stagnation. Workers expect it and employers expect it.”Īsked if he thought that construction companies could afford such wages increases for crane drivers, Fitzgerald said that businesses in the sector could as they have reported increased profits over the last few years. It’s 2017, there is no basis for any conversation other than pay progression. “(Companies) will get the continued undisrupted service of skilled individuals. He added: “We don’t believe that the level of skill and responsibility they need merits anything like €17 per hour, it should be substantially higher. Every time a crane operator does a lift they could kill someone. “The reason why it is 10% is because then they would match the highest rates in the construction sector, which are for workers in mechanical grades, like plumbers and welders.” “We took the highest rate in terms of what crane drivers (currently) earn and added 10% to it.

“We believe that crane drivers should be earning between €25 and €27 an hour,” he said. “At the moment there is an industry agreement that crane drivers are paid a minimum of €16.69 an hour,” he said, adding that some get as much as €22 or €23 an hour depending on the circumstances. However, speaking to Fora, Unite regional officer for construction, Tom Fitzgerald, said that the organisation is looking for wage rises of around 10%. The union did not release the submission it sent to the CIF. Yesterday it sent a draft industry agreement to the Construction Industry Federation, which represents most of the building industry’s largest companies, as well as to several smaller firms. Trade union Unite represents 140 crane operators, which it says amounts to 85% of the crane drivers working across the country. Reporter, Fora April 27th 2017 3 min readĪ UNION REPRESENTING the bulk of Ireland’s crane drivers has put in a large pay claim on behalf of the construction workers.