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Public and Commercial Services Union North Staffordshire

All Out on May 10

by redstar987

PCS members and other Public Sector Workers have now started to pay. Increases in contributions for pensions are being taken from pay packets on 30/04. None of the contributions are going towards a better pension or towards making pension schemes more sustainable. The contributions are going directly to the Treasury to pay-off the deficit. Today We Pay - tomorrow we can fightback....

The government want PCS members to:

Pay more – Extra pension contributions have been imposed for most civil servants –with further increases planned for the next two years.

Work longer – Civil service retirement is now linked to the state pension age – that’s already rising to 68 and the government says it will get higher.

Get less – Changes to indexation from RPI to the lower CPI inflation mean pensions fall by 15 to 20%.

And a two-year Public Sector pay freeze is to be followed by 1% rises. Regional Pay plans mean that everyone in the Public Services in North Staffordshire could face further cuts.

We can’t afford not to TAKE ACTION ON MAY 10
Civil servants and other public sector workers are uniting to defend everything we have worked for.

The government is:
Making civil servants pay up to three times as much for smaller pensions after working up to eight more years – or even longer. And Freezing wages while prices are soaring

The strike is your chance to take a stand with colleagues from across government departments and with other trade unions across the public services.

We are demanding real negotiations with the government, not imposed cuts.

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers across the civil service, the health service and education will be joining the 10 May walkout.

HANDS OFF OUR PENSIONS
All Out on May 10
overtime ban begins May 11 - June 30

AND FROM THE UCU . . . . .