Amazon has defended its pay to employees after the GMB union said its warehouse staff will become the first in the UK to take part in a formal strike ballot. The union said hundreds of workers have begun voting on whether to walk out in anger ov…
Another eight day strike at Felixstowe Port is on the cards this month, after workers rejected management’s attempt to impose a pay deal. The second eight day strike, announced by Unite, follows the refusal of Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company…
Container hauliers will face “severe disruption” at Liverpool Port this month after more than 560 port operatives and maintenance engineers voted in favour of staging a two-week strike. The warning was made by union Unite as it revealed that its…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Airport cargo handling firm Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) said it was confident it could resolve a pay dispute among its truck drivers after the Unite union threatened it with strike action. The union said “freight chaos” was on the cards at H…
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…
DHL Tradeteam said it was disappointed that union members working on its Molson Coors beer contract in Burton-on-Trent are to start strike action in a dispute over “excessively long delivery routes”. Unite claimed the logistics firm had reneged …