tresrikay
Guest
I have no personal axe to grind on this one and couldn't, care less at all, but from what I understand about this issue it is that the final pension and non contributory pensions are proposed to cease for new employees but remain open for existing employees.
Therefor the existing employees will not loose anythingand new employees will be offered non final salary & contributory pensions if they get the job.
The point is that if they don't like it, then they don't have to take the job. do they? But the jobs are still there which has got to be good
Freedom of choice and end of story!
Do you think that those that are running this countries big businesses would give up their mega bonuses, golden hellos, golden handshakes, non dom status, etc etc for the good of our economy, or the well being of our workers? Not a snowballs chances in hell. They are in it to make money at a rate that would bring tears of amazment to our eyes and when things start to get tight they try to sqeeze a little bit extra by diminishing our right of a livable pension. I pay 7% of my wage toward my final salary pension and I have endured below inflation rises ( as a public servant the job should be reward enough ) for the last few years. I have been on strike to protect the pittance I will get to see me through old age and will do so whenever called upon to do so. If we all roll over and accept the crap they tell us, we will soon be giving up paid holidays, the 40 hour week, the right to benifits but it will be ( for the good of the country) every gain that we have got from the rulling class in this country has been by the courage of our forebears in fighting for those rights, pitifull though they be, and it would be a betrayal of their courage and bravery, the hardships they endured to give them all away in the spurious name of progress. Don't fall for the lies they tell us, just look at the obscene profits announced today by Shell and B.P. Do you think any of that £7.2 billion, for the last 3 months