Public service workers condemn pensions attacks
Public service workers committed themselves to defending pension schemes and countering the misleading propaganda about them from politicians and media, at the UNISON conference in Brighton.
Just as the largest public-service schemes – local government and the NHS – had put the finishing touches to reforms ensuring their long-term future, “our pensions are under attack again”, noted delegates. "Comments from Tory politicians like ‘pensions apartheid’ and ‘gilt edged’ and Liberal Democrats calling the pensions ‘unsustainable and unaffordable’” are vitriolic and must be challenged", said conference. “Final salary schemes are one of the great achievements of the labour movement, alongside universal education and health care,”
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