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The union achieved its slender 55 per cent majority gucci bags for strike action because 12 per cent of members failed to vote. London Mayor Boris Johnson yesterday renewed his demand for a change in the law to make strikes illegal unless at least half the union members vote in favour. The strike could begin as soon as next Tuesday – April 3. Unite is the Labour party’s biggest financial backer, and Ed Miliband has been urged to condemn the strike. But so far he has remained silent. Tory MP Charlie Elphicke said: ‘Today’s vote is very disappointing news for hard-working families and businesses who will be inconvenienced by this unnecessary and irresponsible strike. ‘Ed Miliband must condemn this strike and get Labour’s biggest trade union paymaster round the negotiating table.’ Unite has warned the strike will lead to 7,900 petrol stations closing, as the firms it balloted supply 90 per cent of the total. Five of the seven drivers’ depots voted for a strike. But drivers at DHL, which has the largest number of Unite members, voted against. Flashback: A line of tankers standing idle at a gucci outletShell depot in 2008 Pickets: Members of the 'Unite' line up outside the Kingsbury Oil depot near Tamworth in 2008 FIVE FOR, TWO AGAINST The results for the seven companies involved in the ballot are: Turners 94.4% in favour on a turnout of 81.8% Norbert Dentressangle 74.8% in favour on a turnout of 71.3% Wincanton 68.4% in favour on a turnout of 71.9% BP 60.2% in favour on a turnout of 85.8% Hoyer 59.7% in favour on a turnout of 79.7%. DHL drivers narrowly voted against strike action (44.6%), but voted in favour of action short of a strike (53%) Suckling voted against strike action (85%) and action short of strike (76%) And members at JW Suckling overwhelmingly voted against strike action. Its managing director Peter Larner told the Daily Mail: ‘Our [pay and conditions] agreement for 2012 was supervised by Unite but they still chose to ballot our drivers. The union then claimed we had refused to sit down with them, which just isn’t true. We have met with them and other companies several times. 'I really don’t know what this strike is about as we have agreed our standards with the union.’ One industry source told the Mail: ‘This is all about the ego of one union leader who is picking a political fight. ‘If this was really about pay and conditions and safety, they would be balloting the smaller firms who do things on the cheap.’ Mr McCluskey is known as the most Left-wing union leader black gucci belt and is a controversial figure even within Unite.