Suttons Tankers Dispute

adam277:

Olog Hai:
What is even more bizarre is that one poster in this thread regards it as ‘reasonable’ behaviour on Suttons’ part.

Correct! but like I said I don’t know the full story only going by what is mentioned in this thread. If Nynas(think thats what they are called) have decided on paying lower rates then Sutton will be out of pocket due to reduced revenue.
Also I doubt most of you know the full story either.

I may be wrong I’ve only dealt in the pallet/parcel business but I’ve seen this happen before. Contractor at a well known parcel company got told your only getting £200 per truck you have here a day when it used to be £250 a day. He turned round and said fine I’ll pull my trucks out then and he lost the contract and all his drivers lost a job.
The contractor couldn’t afford to run 10 trucks a day and pay his drivers so he decided to leave; that extra £50 was pretty much what he made for himself the £200 is ■■■■■■■ in the trucks and driver wages.

If this is similar to the situation at Suttons then it does sound reasonable; considering the alternative will be job losses. THAT BEING SAID I and probably most of the people here don’t know the full story and this is just my initial thoughts on the affair.
I will say I’m not a big fan of going back to the union days of the 70s like some of you no doubt are when black outs and shortages in food and petrol due to strikes was common place.

Here is a meaningless platitude to appease the angry crowd.
BOOOOOO BIG COMPANIES SCREWING THE DRIVERS!

Haulage has always been cut throat competitive from year dot mate, it’s the nature of the beast. :bulb:

This new tactic is just trying to force a contractor’s hand, by playing on the perception that many workers/drivers will accept any ■■■■ old crap from their employers.
It looks this time they have bitten off more than they can chew by underestimating Sutton’s drivers…once more if Suttons had anything about them., they would have called their bluff by saying ‘‘That is our rate, anything less it aint worth doing’’

As for your stereotypical view on Unions: …ie the 70s chestnut :unamused: …believe me mate NO ONE wants to go back to those days, that is the far end of the spectrum when they got too much power and things went too far, the lunatics took over the asylum…It does not have to be that way, there is always a happy medium :bulb: