Oil tanker drivers' seven days of strikes

Submitted by Matthew on 25 January, 2012 - 3:24

Oil tanker drivers working out of depots in Immingham, Kingsbury and Stockton-on-Tees have begun a week-long strike against pay cuts and attacks on terms and conditions.

The drivers, who are members of the Unite union, deliver fuel to Jet petrol station forecourts across the UK. The decision to take seven days of action was agreed at a mass members’ meeting on 15 January, and workers will strike until 31 January. The vote to strike was 83% in favour on a 96% turnout.

The workers are employed by logistics firm Wincanton, whose employees in a Marks & Spencer distribution warehouse struck on 22 December against management attempts to create a two-tier workforce by introducing a worse pay scheme for new starters.

Unite official Matt Draper said: “Our members could not have sent a clearer message. Wincanton may well be surprised by the strength of feelings amongst its drivers, but it ignores their concerns at its peril.

“The steady erosion and the ongoing attack on the pay and terms and conditions of not only these drivers, but of all those in the industry, must stop. The drivers have had enough.”

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