1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202 
Sacked drivers pin their hopes on RMT support
Page 7
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
THIRTY OWNER-DRIVERS who were fired by Bardon Aggregates' West Drayton depot last month hope to be reinstated after a meeting is held between the RMT and management over the next few days.
Charanjit Singh, known as -Freddie", claims he and the other drivers,who have all worked from the depot for over a decade. were fired following a strike to
achieve the reinstatement of another owner-driver who had been accused of violent conduct during a previous four-day strike (CM 30 June ).
"We all received letters stating that we were fired," he says. "We have been given no reason for this we were just told to have our vehicles out of the yard by 5 July.
"Management doesn't give a damn about us," he claims."We are
waiting and we are ready to work.Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT, wrote to the management at West Drayton at the beginning of July to arrange a meeting. Jnion representative SallyJenkins says:"The company has come back to us and has agreed to meet. We have no date vet but we hope to do it as soon as possible. These drivers' livelihoods are at stake."
Bardon declined to comment.