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Oil companies consider T&G proposal on driver pensions
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The T&Gis long-running campaign to protect oil tanker drivers pensions
will come to ahead in the coming months. Guy Sheppard reports.
111E OIL DISTRIBUTION companies have been set a September deadline to demonstrate their commitment to the creation of a portable pension scheme for their tanker drivers. Pension improvements have been at the top of a list of demands from the Transport & General Workers Union (T&G) since it launched a national campaign to improve the lot of thousands of oil tanker drivers in October 2003.
The union argues that the value of drivers' pensions has been severely eroded by oil companies contracting out their distribution over the past 20 years. A portable pension, which would operate throughout the industry, is designed to reverse this downward trend.
John Roscoe, chairman of the T&G's national oil trades delegates, says a fresh proposal was presented last week to all the main employers including Wincanton, JW Suckling,TDG,Shell and BR We think it is acceptable and will meet everybody's needs," he says."There's a bit of ironing out to he done because pensions are a very complex process.
We want to see genuine commitment and trust across the table. Once we've got that !the employers] can take as long as they like."
Peter Earner, MD of Suckling, declined to comment about the latest proposal.
Another meeting is scheduled for 20 September.