Staff at IT services firm Fujitsu's Bristol city offices were due to hold the first of six strikes today.

Workers are angry over proposals for 1,000 redundancies in the UK, a pay freeze imposed earlier this year, and plans by the company to close the main final salary pension scheme to future accrual, reducing the total pension package of each affected employee by around 20 per cent.

The proposed job losses include 100 redundancies in Bristol, where Fujitsu staff and recruitment agency Kelly Services provide IT services for Lloyds TSB.