Land Rover workers have voted to go on strike in a battle over pay, unions announced on Friday, according to the BBC website.
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The report said members of the Transport and General Workers Union and Amicus are angry at a 6.5% pay deal offered over two years and union heads are urging the firm to reopen talks to prevent a strike at its plant in Solihull, West Midlands.
“We do not seek to engage the company in a damaging dispute and our objective remains to agree a negotiated settlement,” the TGWU said, according to the BBC, which added that the union leaders will meet this week to consider their next move.
According to the BBC, the union said workers were particularly annoyed at the pay offer because Land Rover is one of the few profitable parts of the Ford empire.
“The result is a measure of the real anger that our members feel towards a pay offer that fails to fairly reward the major contribution they have made in changing the fortunes of the company,” Dave Osborne, national officer of the TGWU, said, according to the BBC.
