Promotion to Chief Engineer, Portsmouth to Fishbourne Route - Wightlink Ltd

Our Ref: SH/16/1

1^st August 2024

 

Dear Colleagues 

 

Promotion to Chief Engineer, Portsmouth to Fishbourne Route - Wightlink Ltd

 

Further to previous correspondence on the above matter, I can report that the union’s negotiating team met with the Wightlink Senior Management Team on 31^st July 2024. At that meeting the company made a series of commitments, which the union’s negotiating team believes have moved us in the right direction and that further dialogue could now potentially find a resolution to end the dispute. The union’s negotiating team has requested that all the industrial action is suspended in order to allow further discussions to take place.  

 

In light of these developments and having discussed this matter with the union's negotiating team, the union's National Executive Committee has agreed to suspend the planned industrial action which was scheduled to start on Monday 5^th August 2024. Please work as normal from Monday. 

 

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your commitment and support for your union during this dispute.

 

I will keep you advised of further developments in this matter.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Michael Lynch

General Secretary