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STORIES MANUFACTURING Find out more HERE Ford Dagenham contractors’ win
A second pay victory for contract workers employed at Ford Dagenham has been notched up by Unite.
Over 300 workers assembling engines, employed by Lineside Logistics at the Dagenham plant, have overwhelmingly voted to accept a one-year, three per cent pay deal backdated to July 1, 2019.
There are also additional financial improvements to terms and conditions, including £25 a week extra for first aiders and a new attendance bonus scheme. This latest pay victory follows a three per cent pay deal for 150 cleaners employed by Hamton Environmental cleaning contractors at Ford Dagenham which Unite negotiated earlier this year.
Unite regional officer Matt Smith said, “Following constructive negotiations, we were pleased to have recommended this pay deal, especially as it included additional money for volunteer first aiders and a new attendance bonus for employees which could see an employee with 100 per cent annual attendance rewarded with £500 extra pay.”
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Find out more HERE Heathrow dispute latest
Unite called on Heathrow Airport bosses to get back around the table after workers again massively rejected a revised pay offer in a consultative ballot in September.
Unite said it was making arrangements to refresh its mandate for strike action with a fresh industrial action ballot of over 4,000 workers involved in the dispute.
The dispute involves security guards, firefighters, engineers, passenger service operatives and passenger service drivers across all of Heathrow’s terminals. It comes amid continuing anger over pay disparities between workers doing the same job at the airport and the ‘massive’ pay package of Heathrow Airport’s chief executive officer John Holland-Kaye.
Last year the Heathrow boss received a 8 uniteWORKS Autumn 2019
103.2 per cent pay increase with his basic remuneration package rising from £2.097m in 2017 to £4.2m in 2018.
“Heathrow bosses need to properly recognise the hard work of low paid workers who are essential to the smooth and safe running of the airport with a new pay offer which meets their aspirations,” said Unite regional officer Russ Ball.
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