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'EXACO tanker drivers, like heir colleagues at Esso and ihell, are being urged to reject a iroductivity-linked pay deal vhich would give them a £105 iasic rate.
Transport and General Vorkers Union negotiators say hat the offer of 14 per cent plus productivity allowance falls beow the Union's conference nandate to seek rises at least in ine with the retail price index.
And national commercial jroup secretary Jack Ashwell old CM that he is also unhappy Nith the linking of the two as)ects of pay. Productivity could )e discussed later. "These are )nnual negotiations, not sweeeners," he said.
Texaco refused to divulge deails of its offer when CM )ontacted the company this Neek, and a similar veil of secrecy surrounded the subs:ance of the BP offer which was Deing put to negotiators on Tuesday.
But the general pattern displayed by the other three major companies indicates a trend which BP is unlikely to break until the results of ballots at Shell, Esso, and Texaco become known later this month.