Strikes by warehouse workers based at Oxford’s MINI plant will resume after a pay offer was overwhelmingly rejected by the workforce, Unite, said today. The members voted by 91 per cent to reject the…Read more…
BMW pay win
Unite has secured a multi-year pay deal for 3,500 workers based at BMW’s Mini production plant in Cowley, Oxford. The three year pay deal is worth at least 26.1 per cent to the workers when all its…Read more…
Further strikes possible at BMW
A further wave of strikes involving car workers at the car giant BMW are ‘almost certain’ should further talks fail, Unite warned today (Tuesday 13 June). Unite shop stewards from BMW car…Read more…
Offer rejected
Unite members at BMW making the iconic Mini and Rolls-Royce motor cars have voted to reject an offer aimed at resolving a long running pensions’ dispute. The consultative ballot, in which…Read more…
Offer on the table
Unite announced that it would be suspending further industrial action at the carmaker BMW today (May 17) while members considered an offer from the company in a dispute over the closure of the final…Read more…
‘First strike in living memory’
Workers at the luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce will be striking for the first time in living memory tomorrow (May 5), as the latest talks aimed at breaking the impasse over BMW Group’s pension changes…Read more…
Showroom protest
Car workers, who make engines, the Mini and Rolls-Royce motorcars for BMW,protested outside the German carmaker’s flagship showroom on Park Lane in Mayfair, London on Saturday (April 29) over the…Read more…
‘Immoral’
Just a day after BMW justified its pension scheme closure plans by calling the scheme “unsustainable and unaffordable” in a statement on Wednesday (April 19), the car firm posted skyrocketing…Read more…
Stop pensions robbery
Watch Unite plant convenor Norman Gough explain why workers have been driven to hold the first ever strikes yesterday (April 19) by BMW’s UK workforce in our exclusive video below. There were also…Read more…
Fighting for respect
For hundreds of workers at the BMW Mini plant in Cowley, just outside of Oxford, today (April 19) was their first ever day of strike action after working loyally for the same company for decades….Read more…
Solid support
A 24 hour strike by BMW workers making car engines and the Mini was being solidly supported today (April 19), as workers mounted picket lines and production lines lay idle over the luxury carmaker’s…Read more…
‘First ever’ strike
BMW production lines making the Mini and car engines face disruption tomorrow (April 19) with car workers starting a series of 24 hour strikes as part of a programme of industrial action stretching…Read more…
BMW: Get ‘heads out of sand’ plea
Unite members at BMW’s Swindon Mini plant assembled in droves outside the carmaker’s site this afternoon (April 5) to protest the threatened closure of their final salary pension scheme, which could…Read more…
Pensions fight goes on
Unite members at BMW’s Swindon plant will be staging a protest tomorrow (April 5) from 12pm until 2pm over the carmaker’s plans to close their final salary pension scheme. Tomorrow’s protest…Read more…
‘Extraordinary vote in favour’
BMW workers making engines and the iconic Mini and Rolls-Royce motorcars have overwhelmingly backed industrial action over plans to close their final salary pension scheme the country’s largest union…Read more…
BMW: Unite Munich protest
BMW workers took their fight to protect their pensions all the way to the car maker’s headquarters in Munich on Wednesday (March 29) days before their ballot for industrial action closes today…Read more…
‘Pension robbery’ protest
A group of BMW workers from the UK will be handing in a petition and protesting outside the carmaker’s Munich headquarters in Germany tomorrow (March 29), demanding that BMW Group bosses stop their…Read more…
Pensions deadlock
BMW workers at the home of the Mini in Cowley will be staging a second protest tomorrow (March 24) over the carmaker’s plans to close their final salary pension scheme. Tomorrow’s protest from…Read more…
‘Buy off’ slammed
Unite urged BMW Group bosses to break the impasse and negotiate meaningfully when talks aimed at finding a resolution to the ongoing pension dispute reconvene tomorrow (March 22). Accusing the…Read more…
BMW ‘pension robbery’ protests
BMW workers at the home of the Mini in Cowley and the Hams Hall engine plant in the West Midlands will be protesting tomorrow (March 15) over the carmaker’s plans to close their final salary pension…Read more…