[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:work\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2012\u002Funited-kingdom-rally-calls-on-unilever-to-save-uk-pensions-february-16-2012":3},{"id":4,"slug":5,"title":6,"short_title":7,"intro_text":7,"meta_description":8,"seo_title":8,"path":9,"content_type":10,"locale":11,"go_live_at":7,"first_published_at":12,"page_created_at":13,"published_at":12,"edit_url":14,"breadcrumbs":15,"seo":28,"body_blocks":36,"call_to_action":42,"categories":49,"labels":50,"owner":7,"authors":51,"related_pages":52,"related_sites":53,"in_subsite":54,"contact_page_url":55,"banner_message":56},19484,"united-kingdom-rally-calls-on-unilever-to-save-uk-pensions-february-16-2012","United Kingdom -Rally calls on Unilever to save UK pensions -February 16, 2012",null,"","\u002Fwork\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2012\u002Funited-kingdom-rally-calls-on-unilever-to-save-uk-pensions-february-16-2012","pages.newspage","en","1969-12-30T23:00:00+00:00","2025-12-15T15:49:54.534114+00:00","\u002Fcms\u002Fpages\u002F19484\u002Fedit\u002F",[16,19,22,25,27],{"title":17,"slug":18},"World of Work","work",{"title":20,"slug":21},"Collective Bargaining Agreement","collective-bargaining-agreement",{"title":23,"slug":24},"Collective Bargaining Updates","updates",{"title":26,"slug":26},"2012",{"title":6,"slug":5},{"title":6,"description":8,"image":29,"canonical":30,"robots":31,"og_type":32,"twitter_card":33,"locale":11,"created_at":34,"last_modified_at":35},"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fimages\u002FSocial_media_preview_image_-_2025.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x630.png","https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fwork\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2012\u002Funited-kingdom-rally-calls-on-unilever-to-save-uk-pensions-february-16-2012\u002F","index, follow","website","summary_large_image","1969-12-31T00:00:00+01:00","2025-12-26T21:29:10.377801+01:00",[37],{"type":38,"data":39},"raw_html_block",{"content":40,"variant":41},"\u003Cp class=\"CM4\">On 16 February, some 250 trade union militants from all over Europe turned out at Unilever's Rotterdam headquarters in the Netherlands to protest the world's third largest consumer products company's unrelenting shut-off of a final salary pension scheme for 5,200 UK workers. The manifestation, under the banner “Unilever, Don’t Make Workers Pay for Your Profits”, saw representatives from no less than 23 European union organisations. It was organised by Unilever's European Works Council (EWC) and the European union federations EMCEF and EFFAT. Thousands of workers across the multinational's twelve UK sites have been on strike since December 2011 in protest at pension cuts. Unilever UK management did finally agree to meet with the unions on 9 February, with the assistance of tje ACAS conciliation service, but the company is still adamant on closing the final salary pension scheme effective 1 July 2012 (See also this Collective Bargaining Newsletter Year 5 January 2012).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"CM5\">English: \u003Cspan class=\"CM5Char2\">http:\u002F\u002Fwww.icem.org\u002Fen\u002F4-Chemicals-Pharmaceuticals ... \u003Cbr\u002F>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"CM5\">\u003Cspan class=\"CM5Char2\"> \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"discreet\">\u003Cem>This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. \u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cem>For more information, please contact the future editor – as from the March 2012 issue – Jan Cremers, at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) \u003Ca href=\"mailto:cbn-aias@uva.nl\">cbn-aias@uva.nl\u003C\u002Fa>, or Mariya Nikolova \u003Ca href=\"mailto:mnikolova@etui.org\">mnikolova@etui.org\u003C\u002Fa>, communications officer at the ETUI. The editor of this issue was Maarten van Klaveren, \u003Ca href=\"mailto:M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl\">M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl\u003C\u002Fa>. For previous issues of the \u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cem>Collective bargaining newsletter please visit \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002FE-Newsletters\u002FCollective-bargaining-newsletter\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002FE-Newsletters\u002FCollective-bargaining-newsletter\u003C\u002Fa>. You may find further information on the ETUI at \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002F\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.etui.org\u003C\u002Fa>, and on the AIAS at \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.uva-aias.net\u002F\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.uva-aias.net\u003C\u002Fa>. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2012. To unsubscribe, please contact Mariya Nikolova.\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>","light",{"text":43,"link":44},"Contact us",{"title":43,"url":45,"description":43,"rel":46,"type":47,"id":48},"\u002Fabout\u002Fcontact","follow","internal",24590,[],[],[],[],[],false,"\u002Fwork\u002Fliving-wages\u002Fcontact-us","\u003Cp>Welcome to WageIndicator. Same organisation, same information, new look!\u003C\u002Fp>"]