Great Britain: Unite wants to take strike action among tanker drivers to obtain the establishment of an industry-wide collective bargaining forum

The ballots will cover around 90% of all the drivers supplying fuel to petrol stations and, if the strike actions goes ahead, affect the petrol pumps of the main retailers like Sainsburys, Tesco, Asda, BP, Esso and Shell. The intention is to coordinate the strike action so that each distribution company is affected on the same days, putting pressure on supplies and creating a minor economic and political crisis. 
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collective bargaining forum. Unite believes this forum should help “steady” this highly competitive industry of petrol subcontracting. By Gregor Gall, Research Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Work and Employment Research Unit (WERU), University of Hertfordshire. (Ref. 120141)

The ballots will cover around 90% of all the drivers supplying fuel to petrol stations and, if the strike actions goes ahead, affect the petrol pumps of the main retailers like Sainsburys, Tesco, Asda,

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