This dispute is still going on today………they want Dockers on the end of a phone to come into work as and when SCA Logistics requires them. This going back to the 1930s !!!!! is the UK going to be the new sweat shop of Europe.
Moves by the hardline management of SCA Logistics, based at Tilbury docks, to drive down wages by introducing zero hours contracts has sparked an 11-day strike which started this morning (Thursday 5 June).
The dockers, members of Unite, the country’s largest union, started the 11-day stoppage at 06.00 today and it will run until 05.59 Monday 16 June. The strikers number about 24.
The dockers, members of Unite, the country’s largest union, started the 11-day stoppage at 06.00 today and it will run until 05.59 Monday 16 June. The strikers number about 24.
The dispute centres on fears that the permanent workforce will be replaced by lower paid agency/casual workers on zero hours contracts. The workers staged a 48-hour strike on this issue at the end of last month.
Unite regional officer Jane Jeffery said: “The hardline management of the Swedish-owned SCA Logistics has not moved since the 48-hour strike last month and our members have no choice, but to take this 11-day action to bring the management to the negotiating table.
Unite regional officer Jane Jeffery said: “The hardline management of the Swedish-owned SCA Logistics has not moved since the 48-hour strike last month and our members have no choice, but to take this 11-day action to bring the management to the negotiating table.
“Unite will strongly resist the very real threat of the workforce at this company becoming 100 per cent employed on zero hours contracts. Already the use of agency workers on zero hours contracts is on the increase.
“If management is allowed to have its way, we will be turning the clock back 50 years to the bad old days when you had to rely on the tap on the shoulder to see if you had work for the day in the docks.
“Wages could drop substantially, while the cost of living continues to rise.”
“If management is allowed to have its way, we will be turning the clock back 50 years to the bad old days when you had to rely on the tap on the shoulder to see if you had work for the day in the docks.
“Wages could drop substantially, while the cost of living continues to rise.”
Jane Jeffery said that the management appeared firmly committed to prolonging the dispute in a bid to break the collective agreement that it had freely entered into with Unite.
The strike will only hit vessels being serviced by SCA Logistics at Tilbury.
The strike will only hit vessels being serviced by SCA Logistics at Tilbury.
A move by the hardline management of SCA Logistics, based at Tilbury docks, to drive down wages by introducing zero hours contracts, has provoked a two day strike.
The dockers, members of Unite, the country’s largest union, started a 48-hour stoppage at 06.00 today (Tuesday 27 May) in the dispute which the union fears could see the permanent workforce being replaced by lower paid agency/casual workers on zero hours contracts.
Unite regional officer Jane Jeffery said: “If this is allowed to happen, we will be turning the clock back 50 years to the bad old days when you had to rely on the tap on the shoulder to see if you had work for the day in the docks.
“Only today, the call will come on your mobile – but the culture will be the same, low waged and insecure employment. Wages could drop substantially, while the cost of living continues to rise.”
Unite said that a collective agreement is in place which allowed a certain percentage of agency workers, but this was being severely undermined by the ongoing replacement of permanent trained dockers, who number about 24, by even more agency/casual staff.
Jane Jeffery said: “Although the action is for 48-hours, our members are being denied overtime and prevented from booking holidays. Agency labour is being used to cover their duties and working 14 hour days in order to do so.
“It seems that the management of the Swedish-owned SCA Logistics is hell-bent on antagonising and prolonging the dispute, instead of reaching a settlement through discussion and negotiation.
“Unite will strongly resist the very real threat of the workforce at this company becoming 100 per cent employed on zero hours contracts.”
The strike will only hit vessels being serviced by SCA Logistics at Tilbury.
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