Unilever Strike Friday Dec 9th On Pensions
Wednesday 7th November 2011
GMB STRIKE ACTION ON FRIDAY
9TH DECEMBER AT UNILEVER IN WARRINGTON AND NORWICH IN
NATIONAL STOPPAGE AT 11 SITES OVER CLOSURE OF FINAL SALARY PENSION
SCHEME
The is the first date for strike
action which will be followed by further dates for action unless
Unilever relents and comes back to negotiations says
GMB
GMB members employed by Unilever at Warrington
in Cheshire and Norwich in Norfolk will take part in a one day
national strike at eleven sites on Friday 9th December
over the closure of the final salary pension scheme to existing
employees.
This is the first day of industrial action
after these members voted by a majority of three to one to take
strike action over the company plans to close the company final
salary scheme to existing employees for 1st January
2012.
This change affects 5,000 Unilever staff at
the two locations above and at Purfleet, Port Sunlight, Gloucester,
Manchester, Leeds, Burton on Trent, Crumlin in Wales, Bedfordshire
and Leatherhead in Surrey. Unilever closed the scheme to new
entrants in 2008. Employees at the other nine sites who are members
of Unite or Usdaw have also voted for strike action and the three
unions are acting in concert.
Pickets will be placed as follows:
From 6am to
6pm
Friday
9th December
At Carrow
Works,
Carrow
,
Norwich NR2
DD
and from 6am to
6pm
Friday
9th December
at 2 Liverpool
Road,
Warrington,
Cheshire
WA51AA
Allan Black GMB National Officer said
“This strike action demonstrates that pensions are not just
a matter of concern for public sector workers. The concerns are
shared by workers in private sector employers like Unilever
too. The action also shows that ordinary workers will not
stand idly by to watch profitable employers like Unilever jumping
on the pension’s robbery bandwagon.
Saving for proper level of income in
retirement should be an agreed aim of all main political parties,
workers and employers.
The is the first date for strike
action which will be followed by further dates for action unless
Unilever relents and comes back to negotiations.”
End
Contact Allan Black GMB
National Officer 07725 100 316, Ivan Mercer Norwich 01603 626 492
or 07713 077 194 or Dave Hulse Warrington 0151 727 0077 or 07971
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