UNITE tankers drivers at Turners (Soham) Ltd have launched a fresh wave of strike action which will hit supplies of fuel to Scotland’s busiest airports.

The Grangemouth-based drivers remain furious at a pay offer tabled by the company their union argues amounts to a real terms pay cut despite profits of over £50m for two years running.

Branding the pay offer “miserly,” Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Turners is a very profitable company, yet it thinks its drivers deserve a real-terms pay cut.

“That’s unacceptable.”

The long-running dispute had gone to conciliation service Acas, but after Turners refused to better its offer, Unite announced fresh strikes hitting fuel supplies to Glasgow and Edinburgh airports on December 11, 12, 22, and 23.

Unite industrial officer Lyn Turner warned: “Strike action will continue throughout December, and we will have no option but to continue fuel supply disruption to airlines based at Edinburgh and Glasgow airports into the new year. 

“Turners should be under no illusions that our members will not give up, and they will not give in.”

Turners (Soham) Ltd was contacted for comment.