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20 July, 2005
Members of UK’s Transport & General Workers Union at Michelin’s Stoke tyre plant in the Midlands are in their 11th day of industrial action following the French company’s refusal to consolidate a pay offer with pension, holiday and other benefits. The 400 workers rejected a non-consolidated pay offer 10 March for the second time and are refusing overtime and all cooperative programmes with management. Tying the pay offer of 3% also to pensions and other benefits would cost Michelin less than the revised offer the company made last week that included performance-related payments, said T&G. Workers staged a mass protest outside the factory 15 March, the same day Michelin announced its 2004earnings topped those of 2003 by 60%, £ 358 million to 220 million.