Today I awoke from my slumbers at a very unearthly hour so that I could join my colleagues on the picket line outside my building. The temperature when I arrived was -5 so I was glad I had dressed with extra layers.
Hundreds of civil servants across Shropshire launched a 48-hour strike joining the 270,000 [...]
Archive for March, 2010
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First Day of Action
16 Comments CherryPie on Mar 8th 2010
MYTH # 4. Most public sector workers retire at 60 on two thirds of their final salary
REALITY: The majority of workers joining public sector pension schemes will retire and claim their pension at the age of 65.
What are the Facts?
Many reports about pensions would lead you to believe that most public sector workers retire at [...]
7 Comments CherryPie on Mar 8th 2010
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 7th 2010
MYTH # 3. The discrepancy between private and public sector pensions needs to be tackled by punishing the public sector
REALITY. We should level up pensions – not level them down
What are the Facts?
Many justify attacks on public sector pensions by the decline in the number and quality of private sector defined benefit pension schemes.
Around [...]
5 Comments CherryPie on Mar 7th 2010
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PhotoHunt – Foreign
A rooftop in Brussels or to be more precise part of the statue that adorns the top of the triumphal arch which is the centrepiece of the Cinquantenaire.
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.
22 Comments CherryPie on Mar 5th 2010
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PCS Lobby Parliament
Yesterday, in my capacity as PCS Regional committee member along with several colleagues from Shropshire I joined other PCS members from around the country in a mass lobby of Parliament. We chose an economical and leisurely transport option by using the Wrexham and Shropshire service.
Lunchtime was a Faulty Towers-like experience where we didn’t quite [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Mar 4th 2010
