On 14 November, members of two unions, Prospect and Unite, picketed the Atomic Weapons Establishments at Aldermaston and Burghfield.
Workers held the 24-hour strike because of a threat to replace pensions based on an employee’s career earnings with pensions based on stock market performance and staff contributions.
The company’s contribution to pensions would go from 26 per cent of an employee’s salary to nine per cent.
The move breaks a promise made by the ministry of defence when the nuclear bomb factories were privatised in the 1990s.
Topics: Nuclear weapons