UCU And NUT Teachers Announce Pensions Strike In London On 28 March

The Huffington Post UK  |  By Posted: 16/03/2012 19:13 Updated: 16/03/2012 19:13

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UCU And NUT Teachers Announce Pensions Strike In London On 28 March

Teachers are set to down tools and take to the streets of London on 28 March in protest against the government's pension offer.

The announcement came after talks with the cabinet ended without resolution last week. Members of the University and College Union (UCU) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT) have voted to strike once again over the ongoing issue.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the NUT, said the government is "well aware" teachers do not accept the pesnion changes it is proposing.

"The vast majority of teaching unions have not signed up to the latest pension proposals which still mean that teachers will have to pay much more, work much longer and get much less in retirement," she said on Friday.

“The NUT believes it is essential that the teaching profession stands united on this issue."

On 30 November last year, London was filled with teaching staff and trade union members protesting against the proposed pension changes. Blower added her members could not be expected to "just accept" the proposals "without a justifiable reason".

The NUT head added the union would be writing to others to look at the ways they can work together to "defend the profession and our pensions".

The announcement comes on the same day various other unions "overwhelmingly" rejected the government's current pension offer.

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11:38 AM on 03/18/2012
Hers a deal for the public sector I will give my two private pensions in exchange for their public sector pension, I have worked long and hard for them as may be some of them have. The problem is easily solved; close the pension as it stands now those wishing to change can carry their pension over those who don’t will lose the lot as the pot empties. Those already receiving their pension will continue unchanged, the rest of us can no longer afford their pensions let alone trying to set one up for ourselves. Never mind pensions millions of us can’t even get work more even than any government will admit too, so pensions will be of the lowest denominator starvation more than a possibility, eat or heat all year round.
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10:25 AM on 03/19/2012
"...Hers a deal for the public sector I will give my two private pensions in exchange for their public sector pension, I have worked long and hard for them as may be some of them have. ..."

Don't forget to also return, say 20%, of all the money you ever earned during that period to bring your effective salary down to a level commensurate with those of the public sector workers.
01:31 PM on 03/19/2012
If that was true why are there so many working in the public sector, the only low paid are those on the frontline getting their hands dirty.

In the private sector you don’t get duvet days, guaranteed sick pay, long holidays, late start early finishes, ridiculously high pension that start at a young working age multi staffing levels where one would do, on and on and on. Now you will tell me that this is a myth, don’t bother I have family friends and neighbour’s working locally and nationally in the public sector. I know of many builders who went to work for the council so they would have the time to build their own home, others who wanted more time at home and longer holidays. I don’t blame any of them the system allowed them to do it and in the early days it didn’t cost me too much money, now it’s different the public sector fails to give value for money. I don’t even mind the sector having a great pension but I do object to paying for it, I’ve paid in to a private pension lost some when the businesses folded and I’m left with peanuts. But at no time have I asked the rest of the population to put their hands in their pockets take out what the taxman has left them and pay me. If the public sector wants a good pension they will have to pay for it like the rest of us.
12:45 PM on 03/17/2012
One day strikes are meaningless 'the goverment will just laugh 'they don't care
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09:34 PM on 03/17/2012
All strikes are meaningless, they achieve nothing.