OPIN-2021-0193 Justice for Allied Steel and Wire Workers
(e)
Tabled on 02/03/2021
This Senedd:
a) acknowledges the guarantees the UK Government made to the Allied Steel and Wire steelworkers in Wales that their pensions were safe and fully protected no matter what difficulties employers have;
b) notes the cross-party calls for the UK Prime Minister to intervene to put an end to this pension injustice and his indifference to those pleas;
c) notes the Parliamentary Ombudsman found the UK Government guilty of maladministration;
d) believes that UK governments have a moral duty to pay the pensions the workers paid into in full.