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over Sunday working. Up to 70 drivers and 30 warehouse staff at the company's Whitefield, Manchester depot overwhelmingly agreed at the weekend to a revised company offer to keep their current terms and conditions but to allow the company to control overtime costs with the use of outside contractors. The company declines to comment.
0 Tempers have cooled at Tibbett & Britten after management allayed drivers' fears that it was about to impose new terms and conditions on the Transcare workforce.
With less than a week to go before the current national agreement ends, unions were told last week there would be no imposition of new conditions until the workforce was ready. Once again, the company declined to comment.
Hauliers announcing pay freezes or reductions this month include: TNT, national*:No pay review ntil next year Calor Transport, national': Wage freeze proposed for up to 600 drivers.
Western Freights, Bristol: Intends to freeze pay for all 50 drivers/worehouse staff, Consolidated Land Services,
Scunthorpe':.100 drivers/plant operators to accept wage freeze Pickfords Industrial, national': Pay freeze for drivers and engineers will not be reviewed until September.
Peter Lane, national: Pay frozen for all employees (including 180 drivers).
Wincanton, Weston super Mare': Pay frozen for eight drivers on a contract for UK Corrugated.
• Coorepany has not confirmed.