Coventry HGV drivers on all out strike against rotten Labour council
Channel: ReelNews
Date: 2022-03-28

HGV drivers in the refuse department of Coventry City council have been forced to go on all out indefinite strike - just to secure a regrading claim they were promised three years ago.

The highly skilled workers are paid as little as £11.39 an hour, and the maximum they can earn after 11 years service is just £14.39 an hour. Meanwhile the council are paying drivers at Tom White nearly twice that to scab on the strike - a company that is owned by the council, with negotiating chief officers on the board of directors!

Having wasted between £14 million and £16 million of council tax payers' money on buying Tom White, the council have already spent another £3 million on trying to break the strike - when it would cost just £300,000 to resolve the dispute. They have also suspended one of the workers' chief negotiators on trumped up charges, deputy convenor Pete Randle.

Now UNITE General Secretary Sharon Graham has suspended the 11 Labour councillors who are UNITE members - and made it clear to the council that they will be receiving no funding from UNITE for the upcoming elections.

All of this disgusting behaviour has only made the workers stronger - and with your help and support, they will be staying out until Pete Randle is reinstated and they get the pay rise they deserve.

Messages of support: Pete.Randle@unitetheunion.org
Donate to the strike fund: 
Unite WM/7116 Coventry Local Government Branch
Account number: 2030 2665        Sort code: 608 301