BMW staff stage first UK strikes over 'pensions robbery'

Series of one-day walkouts will hit production at Mini plant in Cowley and Rolls-Royce at Goodwood

BMW Mini Cooper
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BMW's 5,400 workers in the UK are to walk out on no less than eight occasions between April and May, over what unions are calling a "pensions robbery".

Staff will begin the series of one-day walkouts, the first in the company's history in the UK, on 17 April and they will affect all BMW's UK sites, including the Mini plant at Cowley, near Oxford, and the Rolls-Royce factory at Goodwood.

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