As an ex employee my opinion is poor trade union representation has always been a problem at Finning/Briggs. Briggs have employed a new HR Director who seems to have done a great job for the company by bulldozing the unions and employees over the past few years leading to reduced T & C's ,pensions, redundancy and benefits all round except of course for the executive team who made the apointment. Time for the union to man up and represent their members for once. Loose this one and the Americans will think they can get away with anything in the UK.

Good time though to be Impact or a Cat dealer with the opportunities this dispute will throw up.

Perhaps they will be looking to employ more engineers!!