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Well the wonderful generous directors at Arriva have decided to pay a £300 one off payment to employees who complete all their shifts until closure on the 22nd.   So no sickness allowed.
The payment is also a combined one off payment to the 15 drivers tipped to diamond as a thank you for their hard work and also a one off payment to Wednesfield staff transferring to Tamworth, Telford and Cannock to help with relocation costs!!!!??
Considering some drivers will be travelling 60 miles a day to their new garages, £300 is basically 4 weeks petrol money, never mind the extra 2 hours travel time to work each day.

The generous offer was made on the same day that Arriva  announced its revenues had increased by 5.2% to 4.43 billion pounds. 

Don't think it was an acquisition by diamond, rather a giveaway by Arriva who increased their tendered prices considerably to make sure they'd lose the work

Yes, it was confirmed that the 20% contracts arriva had until October 2017 are moving to diamond as well on 23/04/17. That's how arriva were able to negotiate the tupe transfer.

2 engineers places with arriva, all other staff including drivers, cleaners, shuttle drivers and admin get tupe to diamond.
In statement it said if too many drivers opt to move to Cannock, Tamworth and Telford, the companies selection procedure would be used to select staff which includes 3 key elements, length of service, conduct and sickness/punctuality and two other factors , accident record another, both to be discussed with the union.  Basically Arriva will take the cream and Diamond will get whatever's left. Know doubt diamond will further whittle down the numbers once they have the transferred staff with them.

I gave the Express and star the story as I attended the meeting on 2/3/17.
Express and star can only print what they
Know to be true and as they
Couldn't verify it with Arriva and Diamond they couldn't really publish a lot more. However, they will after viewing the video of the meeting I have just sent them in which mr cheveroux read out a company statement specifying that 15 drivers will be relocated to Tamworth, 14 drivers to Telford, 2 drivers to Cannock and the other 50
Staff would be tupe transferred to diamond in Tipton.
Personal manager was quite clear that no redundancies will be made as a tupe transfer is taking place. Anyone refusing to go to diamond will be in effect resigning and as such will have made themselves unemployed.

Arriva walk away from Wednesfield costing themselves nowt.!!
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Sign will be coming down in a month !!!!

Looks like it's finished. Union awaiting call from the scoucer Cheveroux regarding talks with diamond to offer drivers currently at wednesfield jobs with diamond. Rumours of 80% tender losses.  Staff at Wednesfield kept totally in the dark.