GMB looks to Parliament to introduce legislation to secure fair rents for tied pubs following BIS committee report
There should be a free of tie option with tenants able to buy products on the open market and pay a fair rent for the building to stop pubs closing says GMB.
GMB, the union for tied pub tenants, commented on the new report from by Business, Innovation and Skills Committee on the Consultation on a Statutory Code for Pub Companies. See notes to editors for copy of the press release.
Paul Kenny, GMB General Secretary, said:
"Hopefully this time we will see Parliament legislating a free of tie option with tenants able to buy products on the open market and pay a fair rent for the building. The aim is to lower sky high rents charged by pubcos.
To pay these sky high rents a pint of lager is on average 80p per pint higher and ale is 65p per pint higher than justified by inflation and like for like changes in taxes since 1987. This is pricing pubs out of the market and they have closed in droves.
We need Parliament to legislate option 3 to allow tenants to buy products on the open market and pay a fair rent for the building.
We have entered on Orwellian world where the pubcos can brand regulation to ensure a free market as "red tape".
