pensions

Major legal battles have been taking place regarding private pension funds and the protections being offered to workers.

Tuesday 28th March 2006 saw over a million workers take part in the largest one day strike in Britain since the general strike of 1926.

Workers across more than nine different unions are set to strike today over an attack on the local government pension scheme, with the Labour government planning to increase the age workers can retire at.

Tuesday 28th March could see strike action by one and a half million workers across more than nine different unions. The strike has been provoked by an attack on the local government pension scheme, with the labour government planning to increase the age workers can retire at.

The capital of Guinea was brought to a standstill today on the first of a five-day general strike over wages and pensions.

For the third time in two years, the major unions have agreed to ballot for a general strike over public sector pensions.

The government has attempted to head off a strike by thousands of firefighters across the UK by proposing a modification to its pension reforms.

Workers for Delphi, a former subsidiary of General Motors, are facing 24,000 job cuts, the slashing of wages by 63%, and huge cuts in benefits such as pensions and health care.

Pilots at British Airways are preparing for a long strike over their pension scheme.

As 1.5 million workers gear up to strike over pensions, Iain MacKay reports on the hypocrisy of blaming public workers for company pension-gouging

Workers in nine different unions are to be balloted for strike action over Whitehall plans to alter the local government pensions scheme.