Britain's biggest trade union stands accused of 'vindictive and spiteful' discrimination against a group of 350 pensioners over its refusal to up their payouts. A petition has been raised on behalf of the affected former employees of Unite the Union, who have an average age of 80, two-thirds of whom are women and include many bereaved widows.
The petition states that the pension increases had to be 'directly approved by the general secretary'. One of the members is 73-year-old Dave Marsh from Salford, who was a union official based in Manchester from 1977 until he took voluntary redundancy in 2005.
He is still a 'pensioner trustee director' of the scheme but also one of the people affected. He said: “From the age of being an apprentice in the late 1960s I have fought injustices all my life.
