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In a further blow to the already troubled relationship between Britain?s Labour Party and the British labor movement, members of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC) have taken industrial action at steel plants owned by a Labour Party member of Britain?s upper legislative body, the House of Lords. Starting yesterday, 200 ISTC members began working to rule at two steel plants in Wales in response to the decision by owner Lord Paul of Marylebone to terminate their pension plans and switch to a plan that offers less security to workers. The workers at the two plants plan to begin one-day strikes next Wednesday, and workers at a third plant intend to hold a vote on whether to join in the industrial action---despite claims by Lord Paul that the two sides are working towards a compromise.