Unions give BBC ultimatum over scheme changes

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Unions have given the BBC until tomorrow to abandon its "pensions robbery" or else face a ballot on strike action.

BBC union representatives - the National Union of Journalists, Bectu and Unite - have jointly written to the corporation's management urging them to withdraw proposed changes to the pension scheme ...

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