Strike action is the ordsprog

Strike action is the only option left to local government workers. They want to demonstrate the burning resentment and anger they feel over the government and employers taking away their pension rights when those same rights have been given to every other public-sector pension scheme.

Fairness has gone out of the window. The government has quite rightly agreed to give protection of their promised retirement age to every other public sector worker. But they are leaving members of the Local Government Pension Scheme out in the cold.

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But there is evidence that some employers still put greater emphasis on paying dividends to shareholders - often other companies' pension schemes - rather than funding their own employees' pension scheme.

The Local Government Bargaining Council arbitrator found that employers in the local government sector have no obligation to do any pay-roll deductions for the purposes of micro lending payments.

Local government needs to respect people's rights. There's a backlash when people see government regulations infringing on those rights.

The government has got to figure out how to fix the pension system. There are retirees collecting 3 or 4 pensions. Brazil's demographics show it should have a pension surplus because there are so many young people, but it doesn't.

Pension funds are caught in a vicious circle. The UK gilt market has now almost completely detached itself from economic fundamentals and has become a story of pension fund demand and Government supply.

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This is a more militant union that most public sector unions. These workers face on a daily basis far more difficult working conditions than the standard government employee. The workers as a group feel management is too heavy-handed. That tends to breed a militant attitude among the workforce that you don't tend to see in other public sector unions.

We know we have to contribute about $400,000 of property taxes in 2007 and 2008 into pensions and $475,000 into the pension this year. Pension obligation is first; it's not an option.

Both the House and Senate pension bills represent the most comprehensive pension reforms in a generation, so a responsible transition period for employers to meet the new, stricter rules is appropriate.

Falling interest rates have increased the value of pension deficits. While the market value of pension scheme assets has increased over the year by around 15 percent, this has not been enough. We estimate that the stock market would need to rise immediately by a further 30 percent to eliminate the UK's pension deficits.

If the government imposes an increase in the pension age my view is that industrial action is absolutely inevitable.

Were it not for the pension piece, we would not be out on strike. All it needs to do is take its pension proposal off the table.

Roger Toussaint

Nordsprog.dk

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