ARC Cornish contract row
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• I lave of the four owner-drivers working for ARC in West Cornwall will quit rather than sign controversial new contracts being imposed by the quarries giant on its 800 self-employed operators.
Alan Bunclark, Mervyn Harrod and Derek Lea will park up their concrete mixers this Friday (27 August) rather than take on the tough new agreements which scraps many of the financial safety nets the contractors currently enjoy.
These include a minimum payment of £500 a month if work is short and the guarantee that ARC will buy back a truck from the driver at any time (CM 22-28 July).
"Because we are such a small division and unemployment is so high in the area ARC thought it would be easy to put us on the new contracts and use us as a role model for the rest of the country" says Bunclark, who has been with the company for four years.
ARC says it has already had applicants to take on the franchises abandoned by existing owner-drivers in its South-Western division,