Problems are mounting up for aero engineering firm Rolls-Royce.
Thousands of employees are threatening to strike over planned 'draconian' cuts in their company pensions. The company says that it needs to reduce employees' retirement benefits to plug a shortfall of more than £1.1bn shortfall in its pension fund.
In August, a survey of pensions by the actuaries Lane Clark & Peacock suggested that the Rolls-Royce shortfall was more than the company is worth on the stock market.
The situation at Rolls-Royce is so bad that the company has been described as "looking like a giant investment trusts which just happens to make a few engines on the side."
