Leaders of the biggest civil service union today confirmed their rejection of the Government's final offer on public sector pensions and called for fr...
The government has announced its final offer on public sector pensions changes, after talks led to a broad agreement with most trade unions representi...
The PCS union representing hundreds of thousands of civil servants has rejected the government's latest offer for a public sector pensions settlement,...
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Today's strikes have been a long time coming and trade unions have had ample opportunity to call them off, but a small number of hardliners are determined to cause disruption to millions of people.
Nurses, teaching assistants, social workers, dinner ladies and paramedics are lining up at the picket lines to protect their pensions during the biggest strike in living memory. UNISON has said from the start that we want to reach a negotiated settlement, and that still stands. We were willing to take part in scheme specific talks, right up until 30 November and we are still committed to continuing negotiations. Action is a last resort, but after eight months of negotiations we still have no firm offer to put to a single public sector worker.
Of course everyone's pension is important to them but these issues are not going to be resolved as a consequence of the disruption which will be caused by the strikes on Wednesday. They are only going to be resolved by sensible discussion and negotiation.
Behind the cosy democratic facade, Britain is a cut-throat economic dictatorship. A rich and powerful economic elite makes all the key economic decisions, excluding millions of employees and consumers.
A strike by up to two million public sector workers over pensions will cause widespread disruption on Wednesday, hitting schools, hospitals, airports,...
Facility time is an unfair taxpayer-funded subsidy to unions, which frees up money for campaigns. It should be scrapped and paid for out of union coffers.
Firms should allow parents to bring their children to work during next week's strike, Prime Minister David Cameron said as he indicated he might ...
