A long-running dispute between HGV drivers and employer Coventry council looks unlikely to be settled soon after they voted to renew their strike mandate and continue industrial action into the summer. The Unite union said 100% of the drivers vo…
Royal Mail said it did not recognise the figures Unite claimed were being cut from its delivery work and questioned why it was balloting for strike action after its restructure was completed. The union warned that letter and parcel delivery “cha…
Strikes involving GXO drivers on the outsourced Co-op contract have been suspended after the company put forward an improved pay offer. More than 330 lorry drivers and transport clerks based at GXO’s distribution centre in St Helens were due to …
Delivery drivers at DHL working for JCB have called off a strike after securing an almost 10% pay rise. The drivers, who deliver JCB parts between factories across the UK, were due to walk out yesterday and today (23 and 24 May). However, an ele…
GXO has become embroiled in another pay dispute with its drivers on the outsourced Co-op delivery contract, three months after agreeing a 15% salary increase for drivers in Avonmouth. Over 330 drivers and transport clerks in St Helens are now in…
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) said it had averted strike action among truckers and cargo handlers at Heathrow Airport after it offered them a pay deal worth 7.5%. The Unite union had warned “freight chaos” was on the cards after it claimed the…
Asda said it had made an improved offer for staff as part of an ongoing dispute over pay, but that it had been rejected by the union without drivers getting a chance to vote on it. The supermarket giant responded after the GMB union said a consu…
XPO said it had remained “an employer of choice” for fuel tanker drivers after striking a deal with the union which raised pay by an average of £12,000. “The vastly improved” deal was agreed after the 57 drivers on the outsourced Tesco petrol st…
DHL Supply Chain has hit back at the GMB union for claiming it attempted to impose a real terms pay cut on its drivers working on a JCB delivery contract and said it had offered an above inflation pay increase. The workers, who deliver JCB parts…
HGV drivers working for a Sussex council will receive a “skills payment” boost as part of measures introduced to avoid further strikes. GMB members at Adur & Worthing Councils voted to end industrial action that began on 14 March after negot…
Yodel said claims that it sacked a disabled worker on “capability grounds” were inaccurate and that it had followed the correct processes. The parcel courier and delivery service was responding to allegations by the GMB union that it had acted i…
DHL drivers in England and Scotland are celebrating after negotiating significant pay deals with their employer. More than 100 HGV drivers working for DHL Tradeteam in Burton-on-Trent voted in favour of an improved pay offer, worth up to £6,000 …
Manchester bin drivers are voting on whether to strike after rejecting an “insulting” pay offer of 1.75% from employer Biffa. The bin strike ballot opened today (29 March), after extensive negotiations with the waste management company failed to…
As P&O Ferries boss Peter Hebblethwaite was given “one last opportunity” by the government today (28 March) to do a U-turn on the sacking of 800 crew, P&O sailings from Dover to Calais remain severely curtailed. There are no P&O ferr…