BP wage settlement likely
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BP OIL's 1,700 tanker drivers are expected to accept a revised wage offer in a vote this week. It takes them broadly into line with other tanker drivers.
While BP has increased its offer on basic pay from 6.4 per cent to seven per cent, in line with the agreements reached already at Shell and Texaco, it wants this to run from December 20 last year, and not November 16, the anniversary date.
Other details of the previous offer remain as they were.
According to Transport and General Workers' Union national commercial group secretary Jack Ashwell, the drivers will lose around £40 each as a result of the cut of five weeks from the backdating of the increase, but the BP drivers will start next winter's wage round on the same basis as their colleagues in the other companies.
The programme of industrial action against BP (CM, April 2) was suspended after the company improved its offer. This is in line with TGWU policy.
The increase takes basic pay from £113.50 to £121.45, £1 more than the previous offer.