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Pressure group calls
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for better pensions
UNION OFFICERS representing oil tanker drivers are to press for minimum pension standards as a first step towards enhancing pay and conditions throughout the sector.
A meeting of more than 50 Transport & General Workers Union delegates unanimously decided to pursue the demand through the national pay bargaining forum comprising government, oil industry and distribution contractor representatives. Although the forum has yet to be constituted, government support seems likely, given the crucial
role oil tanker drivers could play in any future fuel protests.
John Roscoe, chairman of the T&G's national oil trades delegates, accepts that minimum pension standards would have to be carefully costed before the industry could accept them: "It's a matter of looking at the bigger picture and going forward through agreement and consensus."
The meeting is the latest stage in the T&G's campaign to restore benefits it says have been lost through oil companies contracting out their deliveries over the past 20 years (CM 3 June).