FORMER employees of the failed United Engineering Forgings (UEF) firm took to the streets of London to fight for their pension rights last Saturday.
More than 200 workers, from defunct firms across the country, brought Oxford Circus to a standstill demanding that financial services group Prudential cough up the pensions owed to them.
Prudential was a majority shareholder when UEF went bust. The value of redundant workers' pensions now depends on cash from site sales but campaigners claim a £12m shortfall in the fund was discovered by administrators and they could receive just half of their anticipated entitlement.
Ex-employees hope the regular demonstrations in the capital city will help win the maximum value for the pension rights.
Five hundred workers were made redundant from the Newton Road site, including Ben Perry, of Woodrow Lane, Catshill, who was a Garringtons stamper for 37 years.
He is the Amicus Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union branch secretary.
"We really brought central London to a standstill on Saturday for more than half an hour. We just hope that people will take notice."
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