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Fuel strike off following talks

23rd August 2001
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• A strike that threatened to paralyse fuel deliveries to Jet filling stations has been called off with just hours to go. The industrial action, by members of the Transport and General Workers Union (T&G), was due to go ahead on Tuesday (21 August), but after 14 hours of negotiations an agreement was struck with fuel firm Conoco.

Conoco plans to transfer its transport operation to an outside contractor, and the drivers were concerned that benefits such as pensions and performance related pay would be lost ( CM26 July-1 Aug and 16-22 Aug).

T&G national secretary Danny Bryan describes the Conoco-funded deal as a victory for common sense: "This dispute was about protecting our members pay and conditions which we have seen decline every time an outside contractor has taken over. With this deal we have taken a major step forward and shown that we will not accept any further deterioration: The drivers will now receive one-off payments for certain aspects of their present contracts and will have access to a final-salary pension scheme.

A Conoco spokesman says: 'Strike action would not have been in the best interests of either the company or the unions members, in view of the extremely competitive market conditions we face!

An overwhelming 102 out of 130 drivers voted for the strike action, which would have hit depots in Immingham, Jarrow, Plymouth, Kingsbury and Belfast.


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