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MINI plant warehouse workers to strike

May 9, 2022By UNITElive

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…

May 9, 2022UNITElive

BMW pay win

Feb 11, 2022By UNITElive

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…

Feb 11, 2022UNITElive

Further strikes possible at BMW

Jun 13, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Jun 13, 2017UNITElive

Offer rejected

Jun 12, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Jun 12, 2017UNITElive

Offer on the table

May 17, 2017By UNITElive

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…

May 17, 2017UNITElive

‘First strike in living memory’

May 4, 2017By UNITElive

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…

May 4, 2017UNITElive

Showroom protest

May 2, 2017By UNITElive

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…

May 2, 2017UNITElive

‘Immoral’

Apr 21, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Apr 21, 2017UNITElive

Stop pensions robbery

Apr 20, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Apr 20, 2017UNITElive

Fighting for respect

Apr 19, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Apr 19, 2017UNITElive

Solid support

Apr 19, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Apr 19, 2017UNITElive

‘First ever’ strike

Apr 18, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Apr 18, 2017UNITElive

BMW: Get ‘heads out of sand’ plea

Apr 5, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Apr 5, 2017UNITElive

Pensions fight goes on

Apr 4, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Apr 4, 2017UNITElive

‘Extraordinary vote in favour’

Mar 31, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Mar 31, 2017UNITElive

BMW: Unite Munich protest

Mar 31, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Mar 31, 2017UNITElive

‘Pension robbery’ protest

Mar 28, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Mar 28, 2017UNITElive

Pensions deadlock

Mar 23, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Mar 23, 2017UNITElive

‘Buy off’ slammed

Mar 21, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Mar 21, 2017UNITElive

BMW ‘pension robbery’ protests

Mar 14, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Mar 14, 2017UNITElive
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