Members of trade unions Unison and Unite have voted overwhelmingly in favour of accepting proposed changes to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) – following the recent acceptance by the GMB union.

From Unison, more than nine-in-ten (90.2%) of members – working across local government, police and probation, schools, private companies and the voluntary sector – voted ‘yes' to the planned pension scheme changes – due to take effect from 2014.