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GMB and 3663 fall out over job losses

21st September 2006
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The GMB union says almost 100 drivers will be looking for new work as the result of a contract

switch. Chris Tindall reports.

MORE THAN 92 drivers at food service company 3663 will lose their jobs because 3663 has lost a contract to supply the Ministry of Defence with food for British forces, according to the GMB union.

However, a 3663 spokeswoman says there will be no redundancies. Instead, she promi ises, all staff working on the contract will transfer under the TUPE regulations to Purple Food Service, which won the work.

The GMB is talking to 3663 over the future of 275 drivers, admin and warehouse staff Alan Black, GMB national officer, says 220 jobs will be lost in Basingstoke, with the rest going at Bradford and Dundonald in central Scotland.

Purple Food Service, a consor tium of three companies that includes the Danish Bacon Company (DBC), will take over the MoD contract on 1 October.

Black claims only 30 of the original staff will remain on the new con tract."We are in the process of getting 3663 todo something other than walking away from their responsibilities," he says.

"There's no cost to 3663 because the bill will be picked up by the MoD. However. they are only pay ing statutory minimum redundancy pay. So we are trying to persuade 3663, who have been able to make nice profits after eight-and-a-half years, that it is incumbent on them to put some money in the till.

"So far our argument has fallen on stony ground.The money is not as good as a job, but it does help.

Woodward Foodservice acquired competitor DBC early in September (CM 14 September).


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