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Shell drives lead pension drive
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Guy Sheppard reports on the row brewing over tanker drivers' pensions NEARLY 500 of Shell's tanker drivers are to spearhead a campaign for better pensions among tanker drivers throughout the oil industry.
The Transport & General Workers Union is about to ballot the Shell drivers about striking in support of final-salary pensions, just as the contract to haul the cornproducts changes hands (CM 9 October). Ron Webb, T&G national secretary for road transport, says only 142 of the drivers are currently on final-salary schemes. Nearly all the rest are on money purchase schemes which are dependent on stock market performance.
"We want the other 350 drivers to move forward onto a finalsalary pension scheme," he adds. "But that has been rejected by the current employers and the future contractors."
This is the first test of theT&G's campaign to improve pay and conditions among more than 2.000 tanker drivers throughout the country pensions are said to be the priority issue.
Webb has applied for permission from the T&G's new general secretary, Tony Woodley, for the strike ballot. However, he says dialogue is continuing with Gerry McKenna, a director of Hoyer UK which is the lead contractor taking over the Shell contract from Wincanton this Saturday (1 November).
Talks on pensions are tied up with the drivers' demand for a 10% increase in their basic pay of £12/hour. But Webb stresses: "The priority is getting finalsalary pensions."