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

A new poll reveals that over two-thirds of Coventry’s residents back the striking bin lorry drivers’ pay demands, states the Unite Union. The poll comes as striking bin workers from Coventry and their supporters will stage a march and rally in Coventry on Tuesday (3 May) beginning at 11.00 am.

Coventry residents urge council to settle bin lorry drivers’ strike and pay the rate

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

More than a thousand serious injuries at Amazon sites have been reported to health and safety bodies since 2016, an investigation by GMB union has found. The number of injuries reported to health and safety bodies is rapidly increasing.

More than 1,000 serious injuries reported at UK Amazon sites

Austrian HGV drivers will see a nearly 5% increase in their wages from January courtesy of successful negotiations between trade union Vida and the Chamber of Commerce. Further increases in the following two years have also been declared.

Austrian HGV drivers’ wages to increase by 5% from January

Spanish union Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO ) has claimed the driver shortage isn't the biggest problem of the transportation industry - it is incorrect working conditions. To reverse the situation, better wages and hours should be established, current labour legislation should be respected and fraud should be fought, the union demands.

Transport sector’s problem isn’t driver shortages – it’s poor working conditions, says Spanish union

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.

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

Several lorry drivers around the country have managed to negotiate higher salaries and better working conditions through the Unite trade union. DHL truck drivers at Sainsbury Dartford have secured a 6% pay rise; while GXO drivers have netted a 23% pay increase. Finally, Heinz drivers in Wigan will see their earnings increase by over 25%. Some drivers will even receive a 36% raise, an extra 5 days of holidays and 6 months paid sick leave.

Union-member lorry drivers receive “significant” pay rises at several companies

The Unite trade union has concluded that Ill health is an important factor in the increasing shortage of lorry drivers in the UK, a claim that is based on data obtained from a freedom of information (FOI) request. According to the figures, the number of lorry and bus drivers whose licence was refused or revoked for medical issues has more than doubled in the last 10 years.

FOI request reveals UK is losing lorry drivers over health issues

HGV drivers who are members of the GMB union have received an 11% pay rise “in recognition of their essential value", announced the union 1 September. The pay rise will be provided in two steps: first, an 8%  increase and a further 3% increase from September to December 2021.