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 [...]
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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
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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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
MYTH #2. Savings could be made by replacing final salary (defined benefits) schemes by a defined contribution scheme
REALITY. Scrapping defined benefit pensions would mean increased public spending on public sector pensions in the short and medium term
What are the Facts?
David Cameron has proposed replacing defined benefit schemes with defined contribution schemes in order to save [...]
Comments Off CherryPie on Mar 3rd 2010
MYTHS AND FACTS
MYTH #1 The cost of public sector pensions is spiralling out of control.
REALITY Costs are set to increase somewhat (as are all pensions costs), but not by an unsustainable amount.
What are the Facts?
Many attacks on public sector pensions give a huge number for the cost of future liabilities. But they rarely explain what [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 2nd 2010
Headlines about public sector pensions seem to have been appearing on a daily basis ever since the credit crunch started to bite. Attacks on pensions have been made by the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats and the CBI, alongside various newspaper and internet commentators.
These attacks say that public sector workers are unfairly rewarded and benefiting [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 1st 2010
