Container hauliers are facing severe disruption at Felixstowe Port after last ditch pay talks between management and the unions broke down yesterday. More than 1,900 members of Unite will strike for eight days, from Sunday 21 August until Monday…
Container deliveries to and from the Port of Felixstowe are facing severe disruption as over 1,900 workers prepare to stage an eight-day strike after negotiations on a wage hike failed to reach agreement this week. However the strike may be aver…
Around 1,000 warehouse staff at Amazon’s facility at Tilbury in Essex staged sit down protests on Wednesday and Thursday this week after rejecting a 35p an hour pay rise. The workers are demanding the online giant increase their pay by £2 an hou…
Coventry City Council said it was “bitterly disappointed” that the bin lorry driver strike took so long to resolve after a deal was finally reached with the Unite union last week. The row, which started in January, ended with an agreement that H…
Operations at Felixstowe port could grind to a halt next month after union members recorded a “massive” 92% vote in favour of strike action over pay. The UK’s largest container terminal said Unite had agreed to its request to meet with conciliat…
Disruption to Royal Mail parcel and letter deliveries now looks inevitable after the Unite union said strike action among managers will start later this month. The trade union said 2,400 frontline delivery managers will work to rule on 15-19 Jul…
Royal Mail said it had written to Unite asking it stop using “misleading figures” after the trade union claimed it planned to cut 542 frontline delivery managers from the business. Summer strikes are now on the cards after a vote among workers r…
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…
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…
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 …
DHL drivers working on the JCB parts contract voted 95% in favour of strike action after their union accused the company of implementing a real terms pay cut. The workers, who deliver JCB parts between factories across the UK, are now set for a …