EU truckers say UK government needs to offer LONGER work permits

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : 'Before the coronavirus crisis and Brexit this industry was sick already.
58% : The Government has approved plans to bring in 5,000 foreign HGV operators to deal with the shortage, which has been blamed on a number of factors including the coronavirus pandemic and Brexit.
53% : The Road Haulage Association says it is short of 100,000 drivers and believes around 20,000 have left because of Brexit.
52% : Edwin Atema, Head of enforcement and research at the Dutch-based FNV union, which represents drivers across the EU and Europe said the UK had an enormous battle on its hands to woo foreign drivers back.
42% : Edwin Atema, Head of enforcement and research at the Dutch-based FNV union, dismissed the idea his members would go back

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