Re: Unions say, you work to 67, we'll work 'till 60

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:14:46 -0000, "Wolseley 6-80" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>"Darius" <127.0.0.1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:438ac21f$0$63092$ed2e19e4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-1894330,00.html
>>
>> "
>> TRADE UNION leaders revived the threat of a national strike yesterday
>by
>> warning ministers to ignore pressure to unpick a deal allowing public
>> sector workers to retire at 60.
>>
>> Treasury sources told The Times that public servants who are under 40
>may
>> have to work into their sixties ? it depends on the outcome of a
>review due
>> to be published this week. New recruits may have to retire after 65.
>> "
>>
>> What is it with the public sector? They are, as reported many times,
>18%
>> of the UK workforce, but take nearly 40% of all pensions in the UK.
>What
>> makes them so special that they have to have better retirement then
>the
>> private sector? And they're protected by taxpayer money, not like
>private
>> sector pensions which are protected by... nothing, as has been proved
>under
>> New Liebour years.
>>
>> Darius
>
>How typical of NuLabour to allow public sector workers, most of whom are
>useless, lazy and not worth a tiny fraction of what they are paid to
>give them a highly privileged position of being able to retire at 60
>whilst ordering people in industry, who actually earn the money to keep
>Britain on it's feet, to work until they're 67.
>But of course the lazy good-for-nothing public sector workers are
>NuLabour's friends and have one leg down NuLabour's underpants.
>Regards to all.

So nobody in private sector ever retires early......

The 67 mark is when people will receive the state pension. This is
the same for everybody, private or public.

--
Alan "Ferrit" Ferris

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