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have reached a settlement in their dispute over the manning of new equpipment introduced by the brewers.
In a statement issued this week, Whitbread says ii reached an agreement with officials of the Transport and General Workers' Union Number One Region aftei three days of talks.
The settlement formula was put to a meeting of shot stewards in London on Sun, day, and was passed by a majority verdict.
Now the stewards will pui the formula to mass meetings of drivers at the seven depot! affected by the dispute Neither side would divulge du contents of the agreement.
A Whitbread spokesmat 'commented: "We hope tha this will allow the men to gt back to work without furthe. disruption of our production.'
The row over the nev equipment blew up whet Whitbread tried to introduci new six-wheel Bedford vehi des fitted with boxet designed for ease of loadim and unloading, and one stan dard pallet type.
Efforts by the Government' Advisory, Concilliation am Arbitration Services (ACAS had also met with failure.
Last week a company spokesman told CM that the men wanted payment for the time they had lost on the dispute. "They won't carry out trials on the new equipment as has been done in the restof the group — and that is just not acceptable," he said.
TGWU officer Terry Cook commented that the men would have been breaking existing agreements with the company to operate the new equipment.