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Workforce ready to step up adion
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STRIKE ACTION AT car transporter company Ansa Logistics is due to intensify next week unless exploratory talks between union leaders and management break the deadlock.
The Transport & General Workers Union says three-quarters of the 370-strong workforce will be called out on Monday (15 August) following a fortnight of action characterised by bitterness and ill feeling. Ansa says relief drivers brought in as part of a contingency plan received "vicious and unpleasant threats" to both themselves and their families.
It also says cars awaiting delivery at Avonmouth and Liverpool were illegally locked and the keys went missing.
A T&G spokesman says: "We find it very hard to substantiate the allegations of intimidation because there are no pickets at any of the sites where the official dispute is taking place."
Ansa delivers for Ford and Jaguar and the strike, which has so far involved half the workforce, comes as dealers build up stocks ahead of the September sales rush.
The union accuses the company of making 60 compulsory redundancies and imposing a pay cut despite guaranteeing job security two years ago when the current contract began.
The company says it has invited the union to exploratory talks this week, possibly involving the arbitration service ACAS.
Ansa argues that the dispute is far more to do with restrictive practices, overmanning and productivity than wages, saying the union controls which sub-contractors it uses as well as the work patterns of its members,