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To: maceng2 who wrote (853)	10/24/2005 12:45:04 AM
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Drivers to strike over pensions ananova.com Oil tanker drivers are to stage a five-day strike in a bitter dispute over pensions. The Transport & General Workers Union said 74 drivers at oil giant BP will walk out from Friday, hitting deliveries of petrol. The drivers were transferred to BP from private firm EXEL earlier this month but they complained that their final salary pensions were changed to "inferior" money purchase schemes. Ron Webb, national officer of the union said the situation was a "disgrace", and said BP had the money to keep paying final salary pensions. Last ditch talks will be held on Wednesday in a bid to avert the industrial action which will hit BP depots across the country including Stanlow on Merseyside, Grangemouth in Scotland, Hamble in Hampshire, Kingsbury in the West Midlands and Coryton in Essex.