drover:
It’s not just tesco where the collective bargaining is like this, Asda is the same.
The Union moaned like [zb] when Asda gave drivers a £750 bonus but not the warehouse, which was effectively a retention bonus because they were scared drivers were gonna jump ship to tesco for the £1000 sign on bonus.
This sort of crap is one of the reasons why they have a ‘driver’ shortage if there is a driver shortage.
From experience TGWU ( and obviously now Unite ) are happy to degrade the job of drivers by literally seeing the job as no different to warehouse staff and are more than willing to interchange the roles on that basis.
Their stupidity directly resulted in a broken back handballing artic loads and retired on medical grounds at the age of 40 and one more driver to add to the ‘driver shortage’, in my case by allowing warehouse work in exchange for a wage deal.
It’s the unnacceptable face of collective bargaining at least under that unfit for purpose Union.With union leaders of that calibre they don’t need bosses to stitch them up.
Don’t see train drivers lumped in with station ticket office or cleaning staff or even guards for wage negotiations let alone interchanging the roles.
I’ll go as far as calling TGWU/Unite’s leadership scum who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a negotiating table.