Argos drivers to strike over Stobart transfer

Eddie Stobart truck

© Brett Critchley

By Gavin van Marle

02/06/2016

Over 400 drivers employed by Argos are set to hold two separate strikes in support of 96 drivers who are set to see their employment transferred to Eddie Stobart under a logistics outsourcing contract between the retailer and haulier. Some 75% of Unite members this week voted in favour of taking industrial action over the next fortnight.

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