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BP drivers in strike vote TANKER DRIVERS who deliver fuel
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for BP are to vote on strike action after the company refused to honour their final salary pension schemes when a contract with Exel ends next month (October).
The refusal has infuriated the Transport & General Workers Union, which is due to meet oil distribution employers this week about improving drivers pensions.
Ron Webb, T&G national secretary for road transport, accuses BP of hypocrisy. "BP are one of the people round the table talking about improving pensions, yet here they are facing a different way by doing away with final-salary pensions."
He adds that many drivers employed by BP's in-house logistics arm already benefit from final salary schemes. 'Why then can't they safeguard these pensions like they have with everyone else?" he says.
A spokeswoman for BP says it has offered money-purchase pensions rather than final-salary schemes to new drivers for nearly two years. She declined to comment about the threat of industrial action.
About 100 drivers who deliver from fuel terminals at Coryton, Buncefield, Northampton, Kingsbury, Stanlow, Hamble, Grangemouth and Dalston are to be balloted on strike action from next week (26 September).