“Cartel” claims in operation at Jaguar Land Rover before huge changes on the Halewood site

Union union issued exciting notice to staff at the Merseyside factory

Workers at the Halewood factory in Jaguar Land Rover were warned of a “cartel” operation before a major change affecting the Merseyside plant, with attack actions now.

Last summer, Echo reported the news that Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) He was making major changes to what is called his line operations. The contract is currently operated by DHL, but it will be changed from the end of this financial year after the company has lost in a retention process.

Before that Major changeworkers at Halewood They received an exciting notification from their union leaders from the United, claiming that the companies involved are trying to freeze the trade union representatives when it comes to arrangements for the new line arrangement.

In the notification, seen by Echo, the union states: “Since JLR announced last summer that the current commercial contract with DHL is changing, your national committee has worked tirelessly to ensure that any change in your employer or contract has a little or no impact on you.

“History confirms that, without collective negotiations, we would not have obtained anywhere close to the successes that the National Committee for you won. Together with the way we managed to accumulate 100 local and national agreements and common policies that we intend to continue before.”

United said that despite the numerous requests to the DHL existing Linefeed operator, and the new companies involved something and Ledec, requesting the confirmation that “these arrangements will remain, although in a slightly different format, there was no desire to hire.”

The Union said that its national officer Matt Draper wrote to DHL who officially applied for a meeting about what is known as the occupation of occupational protection (tupe), which covers employees if the work I do is transferred to a new employer.

The Union added: “Our opinion is that it is discussing how this new world will look and, in fact, forming a” cartel “in which it intends to continue without us at the table. Believe it, I have already seen their intentions.

The opinion added: “Let us be quite clear, if we allow this to happen, then our ability to represent and negotiate on your behalf, members will be seriously disabled. We believe that JLR has carved this contract, not only for commercial purposes, to open in a closed book, but also strategic, to divide and conquer this current collective contract and to make the position of three different companies to reduce the costs, lowering and competing this current collective agreement and, to the position of three different companies, to reduce the costs, to reduce the costs, to reduce the costs, to reduce the costs, to reduce the costs, to reduce the costs, Current and, in the position of three different companies, to reduce costs, lowering the collective terms and conditions. ”

Confirming that the turn could lead to a vote on strike actions, the union told its workers: “Your National Committee will now carry out a consultative bulletin of all our members in which we will urge you to move to an electronic ballot for industrial actions. Because we always have hope and open to the dialog that will avoid such measures, however, we must assume that this will not happen and we must position ourselves accordingly.

TUPE regulations cover employees if the work they do is transferred to a new employer. It means that the staff has the right to the same terms and conditions of their initial engage when the changes are made. However, after transfer, the new employer can make additional changes.

The Echo Has Asked All the Companies Named in the Union Notice for A Response. Jaguar Land Rover said he would not comment, because this was a problem for DHL and the suppliers entering.

A DHL spokesman said: “We continue to work with all sides to ensure that our colleagues have a smooth transition to their new employer. We will continue to work in collaboration with united at our center for freight and logistics ”. Leadec chose not to answer. Also, something was approached for an answer.