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Tesco: every little counts?
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Tesco drivers are voting on strike action. Guy Sheppard reports.
ABOUT 600 TESCO delivery drivers this week began voting on a revised pay offer which could lift the threat of industrial action.
The drivers are based at two depots in Middleton, Greater Manchester,and one in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, which are run by Wincanton (CM 25 September).
John Robb, managing director of the company's grocery retail business, presented the new offer at a meeting with the Transport & General Workers Union on Friday (26 September).
John Evans, T&G regional industrial organiser, says the union is making no recommendation about the deal, which would boost drivers' basic hourly rate of £6.98 by 3.75% from next month. Back pay from May, when a new deal was due to have come into force. would rise by 3.5%. "The average salary is around £23,000424,000 and the drivers are looking for something like £2,000-a-year extra." says Evans.
He adds that the company has also agreed to release 19 days' holiday pay which has been frozen since 1999: "It has been a bone of contention ever since. The company was paying it back when people left the company but it has now agreed to release it over the next four years."
A new attendance bonus is also included, giving drivers an extra day's pay or holiday for every three-month period they do not take unscheduled days off Procedures for holding a ballot on industrial action had already started before the meeting with Robb. As well as the drivers the offer also covers around 800 warehouse staff.