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Rider averts strike with profit scheme
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• Yorkshire Rider has averted industrial action after two failed attempts to agree on this year's pay award.
Agreement was reached at the end of last week when management offered to share any excess profits made in the current financial year in a bid to convince negotiators that there really was no more money on the table.
The settlement follows an 18-month pay deal signed at the end of 1987 which introduced a lower rate of pay for new starters, and also cut bonuses and premiums in return for lump sum payments of up to 22,700.
After rejecting a four-stage/ 18-month deal, platform staff voted for a two-stage/12-month deal with profit sharing.
The first instalment will be 4%, payable on 1 May, followed by 3.5% on 1 November, with enhancements for drivers on lower rates.
New starters on 23.60/hour will have an additional 10p/hour before the percentage is added, and minibus drivers will earn premium rates after five days' work, rather than six.
The profit share will apply if the company exceeds its target threshold profit for this financial year. Any excess will be split 50/50 between the company and its platform staff.
Rider's managing director Bill Cotthain is adamant that the award is consistent with the ESOP philosophy: "If we do make more profit than the company needs and we expect, it's only right that the staff should share in that success," he says.
CI Eleventh-hour talks also seem to have smoothed the waters at West Yorkshire Road Car, where a ballot of over 1,200 workers at subsidiaries York City & District Travel, Harrogate & District, and West Yorkshire travel, had given union leaders a mandate to discuss industrial action if management did not improve its 3-3.5% offer.
York City & District general manager Nigel Jolliffe says that the deal has been "restructured to offer earlier benefits to staff'. TGWU negotiator David Bradley says the new offer goes a long way towards meeting his members' demands. It will be put to a mass meeting later this week.