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Seafield resolves pay dispute after strikes
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A DISPUTE OVER pay between Seafield Logistics and road haulage union URTU has been settled after drivers carried out their threat of strike action.
Negotiations over salaries began in February and continued in March. when the haulage company says it was asked for pay increases varying between 4.7% and 5.1% for different types of work.
Seafield, which has depots in Scunthorpe. Northwich,Barnsley, Worksop, Cambridgeshire and Aylesham, and boasts of serving blue-chip customers on its website, said it was "not in a position to give a blanket pay rise across the board-.
Further discussions came to nothing and on 14 and 22 August, 38 drivers and site workers who are employed at Seafield's Scunthorpe depot staged 24-hour strikes.
For the union, Graham Bird says Seafield Logistics and its drivers eventually agreed to an hourly rate of f6.10, as well as the creation of a bonus scheme that nets drivers around £600 per year.
He adds: "The dispute was helped along considerably by the fact that we received total support from 150 construction contractors who were carrying out building projects at the Corus [Scunthorpe] works.
"These people were members of Amicus and GMB: they sat in their cabins all day on the first date and refused to come into work at all on the second date."
Seafield would not comment other than confirming that the situation was now resolved.