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Shell tanker drivers win £9 an hour

13th May 2004, Page 8
13th May 2004
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A REVISED pay offer has averted a strike by 30 tanker drivers at Shell Direct but union leaders say they have still failed to negotiate a settlement at Gleaner Oils.

The two Scottish oil distribution companies were both threatened with a series of one-day stoppages and an overtime ban after drivers rejected the original 5.37% offer (CM 6 May).

Hourly pay for drivers at Shell Direct is being increased from £8.35 to £9 in a two-stage deal worth 4.2% backdated to October with a further 3.45% from the beginning of this month (May). Pat Rafferty, regional industrial organiser for the Transport & General Workers Union, says:

tiated settlement. "Now we say to Gleaner Oils that Shell Direct has shown the way and we look to the Gleaner "We're pleased we gained a nego

Scotland to respond." Billy Laing, managing director of Elgin-based Gleaner, says fewer than half of his 34 tanker management across the north of

drivers are T&G members. In contrast to the T&G's view he believes they have all accepted the original offer. "We're going to pay it anyway," he concludes.


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