Jet garages across the UK are facing fuel shortages this spring as tanker drivers employed by JW Sucking Transport ballot for industrial action in a longstanding pay dispute, warns Unite.

Jet garages facing fuel shortages as tanker drivers begin balloting in pay dispute

Just four months after the <a href="https://trans.info/en/austrian-hgv-drivers-wage-267007" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wages of HGV drivers</a> were increased by 5 per cent, workers for forwarding and storage companies in Austria will receive a 3.3% wage rise from April, the <a href="https://www.vida.at/cms/S03/S03_0.a/1342658437246/home/artikel/kv-speditionen-und-lagereibetriebe" rel="nofollow">Vida</a> trade union has announced. Employees will also receive a pandemic bonus.

Austrian logistics workers to receive wage rise and pandemic bonus

Over 1,000 HGV drivers in the UK employed by the Co-op have secured a 5 % pay increase backdated from February, and another 5% from 1st November, says the Unite trade union. At the same time, lorry drivers employed by Hanson have also accepted an improved pay deal and better working conditions.

Jet garages facing fuel shortages as tanker drivers begin balloting in pay dispute

Austrian logistics workers to receive wage rise and pandemic bonus

More than 1000 Co-op HGV drivers and 200 Hanson drivers get pay rise

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Unions net Dutch truckers 6.75% pay rise and numerous other benefits