TGWU in transfer talks
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• The Transport & General Workers Union may take Wincanton Logistics and Hoyer UK to a tribunal to solve the driver crisis resulting from Hoyer's £46m capture of Esso's industrial fuel distribution contract.
The initial agreement between Wincanton and Hoyer outlined a transfer of more than 80 Wincanton drivers to Hoyer, says John Moulsdale, TGWU district officer for Salisbury.
However, Moulsdale says this has now changed. "Wincanton says it is a transfer, Hoyer says it is not. We have to get legal advice and test this situation through going to a tribunal."
Moulsdale is concerned that the drivers' livelihood is being "messed about with". He says the drivers are being allowed to apply for driver jobs with Hoyer, but only if they accept terms and conditions "different" to those they had with Wincanton.
"If they do not sign these they will not be taken on," says Moulsdale. "What else can they do? What are their options? They have mortgages to pay."