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Stoppage over Linkman wages

8th April 1993, Page 12
8th April 1993
Page 12
Page 12, 8th April 1993 — Stoppage over Linkman wages
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• Twenty of the 100 drivers at Linkman Tanker's Middlesbrough depot staged an unofficial morning stoppage last week in protest at the company's imposition of a pay freeze.

The two-and-a-half hour action was held by drivers in advance of a Transport 8.z General Workers Union ballot on industrial action.

The TGWU warned the drivers that they could lose their jobs, but district officer Allan Gray says: "They were so frustrated they felt it was the only way they could make the company listen."

The Transport Development Group subsidiary says it does not plan to sack the drivers involved in the dispute.

Depot operations manager Alan Paterson says: 'There has been a failure to agree at the first stage and as far as we're concerned we managed to get the drivers hack inside the dispute procedure and hope to resolve the problem in as short a time frame as possible."

The company will meet with the TGWU to discuss pay proposals which could lead to the weekly pay scheme being replaced by an annual hours system. The company admits that drivers' hours could fluctuate from week to week.

E More than 70 drivers at nearby Billingham-based KW Devereux & Sons have rejected a pay freeze.

The company has agreed to meet them again in three months but the TGWU says unless the household removals and general haulage firm offers an alternative. it will ballot its members for industrial action.

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Locations: Billingham

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