On Friday, employees of Jaguar Land Rover rejected the company?s offer to raise wages 14% over the next three years. The 12,881 workers represented largely by the union Unite are demanding at least a 7.7% raise in the first year. In recent years vehicle output has been raise by 45%, a statistic the union is citing to urge a larger wage increase.
See "Jaguar Land Rover Threaten Industrial Action", John Murray Brown and Andy Sharman, Financial Times, November 13, 2014