TiredAndEmotional:
Does anyone know the outcome of this dispute?
I believe the company threatened them with court action over the timescales from notification to strike action. However I don’t they had a great deal of time from being given the new contract to having to accept it.
My understanding the drivers affected were those left who’d been taken on from the previous company and were still on those T&C’s I suppose Sutton’s hoped they’d leave and could offer new drivers the same job at lower wages.
I know there were several people knocking their action, they seemed to think they had it good for enough years and now should be in the same boat as many others in haulage, but I think its a shame that yet another well paid job for ordinary working people should be lost for someone a long way up the ladder (maybe not even at Sutton’s) to get a massive bonus on the backs of others work. This,is not the politics of envy, I worked directly and indirectly for some of the wealthiest people around, but in return they pat me well.