Union unity on pensions?
Late last year union leaders of the public sector unions met to discuss the way forward on pension rights and provision. This meeting had been convened on the initiative of the civil service union PCS but was called under the auspices of the TUC. In the civil service, as with the rest of the public sector, the Government is proposing to raise the pension retirement age and is talking of ending the final salary scheme. The PCS is trying to build a common cross public sector union position, hence the meeting. In the jointly agreed statement following the meeting the TUC said, “The TUC will be...