I work for a large transport company in the West Midlands and I am the rep for well over 100 C+E drivers.
Our 2008 pay offer was 3% which given our low hourly rate in the first place was rejected unanimously by the members.
At this point I issued a fail to agree and called in the local full time official. A meeting between the union official and the company management was arranged last week for tomorrow Friday at 10am, I until a few hours ago thought I would be attending this meeting as the rep for the drivers.
I have now been instructed to carry out a delivery 50 miles away at exactly the same time the meeting starts. I am very very angry.
Smee:
I work for a large transport company in the West Midlands and I am the rep for well over 100 C+E drivers.
Our 2008 pay offer was 3% which given our low hourly rate in the first place was rejected unanimously by the members.
At this point I issued a fail to agree and called in the local full time official. A meeting between the union official and the company management was arranged last week for tomorrow Friday at 10am, I until a few hours ago thought I would be attending this meeting as the rep for the drivers.
I have now been instructed to carry out a delivery 50 miles away at exactly the same time the meeting starts. I am very very angry.
What do the guvs at your union Hq say about this as I THINK there is some sort of law precidence that has to be followed if you are their sole rep - worth checking ASAP
They deliberately left it so late I can not contact anyone at the union. I have emailed the union official and left voice mail, but what a friggin low down trick I am bloody fuming… 
you have PM
The union official got no where, the company did not budge. We now go to the ballot stage…
You should have refused and brought the truck back.
The companies attitude towards employment law has done nothing to improve relations, no matter now the dispute goes to a postal ballot so that the union has a mandate for further action…