AstraZeneca 'confident' of deal on strikes

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Pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca is confident it will reach a deal with unions to end renewed strike action over changes to the company's pension scheme.

Strikes resumed at the firm's Macclesfield plant last week after a face-to-face meeting between AstraZeneca's UK management and the GMB union broke down in acrimony. The union said the 45-minute...

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