UPDATE 2-Workers at Tata Steel UK's biggest union vote to strike

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Source: Reuters

By Eric Onstad

LONDON, May 29 (Reuters) - Tata Steel UK's biggest trade union voted on Friday to go on strike, setting the scene for the biggest labour action in the British steel sector in three decades.

Members of the trade union Community voted 88 percent in favour of going on strike while the smaller GMB union said its members also approved strike action, statements said.

The union members are locked in a dispute with the company about its proposal to change their pension scheme.

"Steelworkers are determined to stand up to Tata," said Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of Community.

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/29/britain-steel-strike-tata-steel-idUSL5N0YK3M020150529

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The coal strike was in 84 too.

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1. K&R.....

[Fred Sanders]

2. British workers, in Britain, demanding concessions from their ruthless Indian overlords....the world has changed.

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3. The 1984 coal miners strike when Thatcher destroyed a large sector of U.K. industry.

The setting for the film and Broadway musical Billy Elliott.