Over 5,000 Ford workers are being balloted for strike action in a row over security and pensions, Unite has said.

Ford’s workforce is calling on the company to look at ways to improve the company pension scheme, after the sponsor said it intended to use the consumer price index to calculate inflation-linked pension increases rather than the retail price index.

Many workers have argued that the change will affect the value of their overall pension entitlements.

Unite said Ford has refused to enter into discussion on the issue.

“Workers on the production line feel they have no choice and are balloting for strike action to get the company back around the negotiating table,” Unite national officer Roger Maddison said.

A spokesman for Ford said the company “has a long-established practice of negotiating the pay, conditions and working practices of employees with its partner unions in the UK”.

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