Unilever workers vote for pension strikes

Unilever intends to close the company's final salary scheme and move all 5,000 members across to a career-average arrangement, the Telegraph reports. However, 85% of Unite members and 75% of GMB members working for Unilever voted for industrial action against the move. If the strike goes ahead, it will be the first time a FTSE 100 company's staff has walked out over pensions, and the biggest strike Unilever has ever faced down. The company closed its final salary pension to new members in 2009, putting Unilever's remaining 2,000 workers in a less generous scheme. It claimed it m...