Workers at Jaguar Land Rover have won a better pay and pensions deal from their employer after rejecting the initial offer and threatening to ballot for strike action. In early November, 96% of the 13,000 workers at the company’s five plants rejected the first offer in a consultative ballot. The offer was of a 14% pay increase over three years and changes to the final salary pension scheme.
The workers’ union, Unite, told the company that unless an improved offer was made, it would ballot its members for strike action with a ‘yes’ recommendation for action. The opposition to the initial pay offer was based on a number of points. Firstly, it was not enough to compensate the workers for pay cuts and pay freezes in recent years. Secondly, the offer failed to recognise the workforce’s contribution to the company’s profits of £2.5 billion last year and this year’s record breaking first
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