For certain aspects of their operation it seems like they are giving the drivers & staff a choice - take a 10% pay cut or 10% will have to go…
If you were faced with this choice - what would you do 
ROG:
For certain aspects of their operation it seems like they are giving the drivers & staff a choice - take a 10% pay cut or 10% will have to go…
Where does it say that ? All it says is “In order to protect jobs during this time, and to secure all employees’ long-term employment, from the 1 July 2009, the company is intending to reduce all drivers’ hourly rates of pay by 10%.”
dhl … wincanton… thats just two big firms watch them all follow, they know youve got no choice but to stick with um theres nothing else about
john
Perhaps they have undercut to many contracts just to get the work and send their smaller rivals into bankruptcy, they now need the drivers to help them stay profitable as fuel prices have gone up.
Another ponder i often have, was an old american i used to work for said “We may have a £200m drilling rig, but its absolutly useless without a good drill crew”
This fable should be no different then Wincantons/ Stobarts/Turners ect blarring about having umpteen 100 new trucks on the road. Everyone of them is useless without a wheel turner. But folk will drop wages and kiss ar5e and even back stab their mates to get work.
So why is the industry and the driver moaning so much? Is it really fuel prices or the influx of eastern bloc members that have stuffed this industry?
Think folk
Rikki-UK:
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It doesn’t make clear which Wincanton depots are getting a 10% wage cut, although everyone i know who works for Wincanton has no such letter (yet!).
I believe if the guys on the BP LPG contract get a 10% wage cut then it will hit them hard as they are apparently on £36k per year. I do know that six guys off that contract where seconded to the Middlewich drinks contract, only three remain there. The other three didn’t last past their induction, they didn’t like the idea of hitching up and swapping trailers 
Oh i nearly forgot 
Wincanton now pay their overtime out ‘yearly’ !!! Thats right, do it all now and get paid next April. Money in the bank hey !!
we had to take a 13% pay cut in january,effective for one year,even though work volume dropped,drivers were finished to balance the books in that respect.i personally think a lot of companies are jumping on the "recession"bandwagon,and the unions are letting them get away with it.
Almost every company is going through the same thing, work has reduced but fixed costs such as vehicles and wages remain the same, the best option all round is to freeze or reduce costs until work picks up, the alternative is to cut staff and sell/return trucks but why should you lose good loyal staff who you’ll need when it recovers when you can give them the choice of sharing the pain now but staying in employment.