Angry workers protest ditching of Unilever DB scheme

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More than a hundred Unilever workers have demonstrated outside the company's annual general meeting today, saying plans to scrap its final salary pension scheme are a "betrayal".

The protest was sparked by proposals to move members to a two-part scheme consisting of a defined benefit career average plan and a defined contribution investing plan by 1 January 2012, revealed l...

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