25,000 UK workers to vote on pensions strike

Thousands of workers in the UK who build and maintain council houses, schools and other local authority buildings are to be balloted for strikes in an escalating row over pensions, it was announced today.

Around 25,000 members of the construction workers’ union Ucatt will vote over the next few weeks on whether to take industrial action in protest at controversial plans to increase their pension age from 60 to 65.