CLS faces strike ballot in pay row
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• More than 150 drivers at Consolidated Land Services of Scunthorpe are to be balloted next week for industrial action after rejecting a pay-rise offer of 2.5% over two years.
Ballot papers are due to go out next Monday (8 December) after the company rejected a pay claim from drivers based at steel plants in Scunthorpe, South Wales and Teeside.
The drivers want a 2.5% rise from April 1997 with a commitment from the company to implement the East Midlands Joint Industrial Council pay scale for the following year.
CLS drivers' basic rate is £4.12 an hour: the current East Midlands JIC rate is £4.35 an hour and is expected to rise around 3% next year.
CLS managing director Bob Clarke says: "We are in negotiation with the United Road Transport Union and this will continue".
LIRTU regional officer Graham Bird says: "We are hoping to settle before action is taken.