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URTU in new !dam row
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URTU IS TO WRITE to its driver members at Cheshire-based haulier James Irlam & Sons to warn them that they are at risk of breaking WorkingTime Directive regs.
URTU national negotiator Roy Abrahams believes Irlam's decision to opt out of the WTD for night workers through a workforce agreement rather than a collective agreement through the union breaks the rules.
Abrahams, who met the company last Tuesday (31 May), says: "We exchanged views regarding the opt out, but we have different views on their approach to this. As a recognised union there should have been a collective agreement reached with us."
He adds that Warn says it took legal advice before proceeding with a workforce agreement: "I don't know who or where it got this advice from. I am staggered.
"Technically as we are in week nine there has been no breach of the regulations so far,but when the 17-week period ends our members could potentially find themselves breaking them."
• The company has given URTU formal notice that it plans to withdraw from the recognition agreement secured in September 2001.
URTU has accused Hams of evading pay talks by imposing a rise and axing jobs without consultation.