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2 June, 2015The dispute over a tracker device in the vehicles of employees working at the Finnish-owned lift firm Kone in the UK has been successfully settled and the strike has been called off.
IndustriALL Global Union affiliate Unite the Union launched a strike on 27 May including 300 engineering service workers. The strike was a protest against a tracker system used for measuring workloads known as VAMS, deemed unreliable according to Unite.
An agreement has now been reached, providing safeguards for the workers, and as a result Unite's members are returning to work.
Unite national officer Linda McCulloch said:
The agreement provides mechanisms that will ensure that VAMS accurately records and measures the workloads of the employees.
This is a successful outcome that could have only been achieved by the 100 per cent solidarity shown by our members during the course of this dispute.