Apr 5, 2017
BMW workers to stage first UK strikes over pensions
Unite the union will call eight 24 hour strikes across four sites, starting on 19 April and ending on 24 May. It will be the first time that staff at BMW's UK operations have staged a walk-out. BMW employs about 8,000 people and Unite says that the action could involve up to 3,500 workers who are in final-salary pension schemes. "The company has put a number of options on the table to help employees transition to the proposed new pension arrangements and it remains open to negotiation," BMW said. "Bosses in the UK and BMW's headquarters in Munich cannot feign surprise that it's come to this point. Unite has repeatedly warned of the anger their insistence to railroad through the pension scheme's closure would generate and the resulting industrial action," he said. BMW makes the Mini at Cowley near Oxford and Rolls-Royce cars at Goodwood.
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