Tata Steel dispute

A pensions’ dispute at Tata Steel has come to an end after members of all four unions voted to accept a new deal offered by the company which would keep the British Steel Pension Scheme open.

The unions — Community, Unite, GMB and UCATT — had called off strike action planned in June after the employers tabled the revised offer. Further meetings will now take place between the unions and the company to finalise the arrangements to keep the scheme open.

Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of Community and chair of the National Trade Union Steel Co-ordinating Committee, said there was still more to do both to resolve the concerns of members at Tata Steel and to “meet the wider challenges faced by the UK steel industry”.

www.unitetheunion.org/news/tata-steel-pensions-dispute-ends-union-members-vote-to-accept-proposal-to-keep-scheme-open

www.community-tu.org/who-we-are/news/tata-steel-pensions-dispute-ends-union-members-vote-to-accept-proposal-to-keep-scheme-open.aspx

www.community-tu.org/who-we-are/news/720-jobs-at-risk-at-tata-steel-speciality-business.aspx

www.gmb.org.uk/newsroom/steel-job-cuts