GUS throws out driver's appeal
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• A White Arrow Services delivery driver, who was sacked when his van was stolen last month, has had his appeal for reinstatement thrown out — but Keith Griffiths, who worked at the company's Wrexham depot, has been placed on full pay pending a top-level meeting between White Arrow managers and Transport and General Workers Union officials.
The Union claims drivers are being encouraged to cut corners as part of an incentive drive, and that Griffiths had a good record but was under pressure to hurry deliveries.
He had left his van unlocked with the keys in the ignition, and when he returned it had been stolen. It was recovered later — without its load.
Griffiths' 45 workmates have already staged a one-day strike but the company says he was sacked under "normal disciplinary procedures".