BMW workers vote to accept pay deal

Workers at BMW's Cowley factory in Britain, where the new Mini will be built, have voted to accept a new two-year pay deal.

Workers at BMW's Cowley factory in Britain, where the new Mini will be built, have voted to accept a new two-year pay deal.

Details of the new deal, which follows several rounds of negotiations, will be released later.

The two-year deal will make the workforce the highest paid car workers in the UK, says the Transport and General Workers Union.

The agreement comes less than two weeks after the workforce at the Oxfordshire plant rejected an initial pay offer.

The workers were offered a pay rise of 4% in the first year and 3% in the second.

But TGWU officials said there was disagreement over new flexible arrangements, including a grading scheme of work-related pay and an extended working week.

Pay negotiations have been ongoing at the Cowley plant, which employs more than 2,000 workers, since it was retained by BMW following the break-up of the Rover group last year.

Ivor Braggins, the union's regional organiser, said: "This is a very good result and a vote of confidence in the new investment planned for Cowley.

"We are naturally delighted to have secured a deal which makes Cowley workers the best paid in the industry. Their acceptance demonstrates their determination to make the new Mini project a success".

More than 90% of the workforce took part in the ballot, with 1,299 voting in favour to 288 against.

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