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Are you saying that current NATS staff should take industrial action to 'protect' the T&C's of people who don't even work for the company yet, aren't forced to work for the company and will be aware of the companies T&C's before they sign on the dotted line?
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That was my initial reaction until someone explained the following:
Supposing the existing scheme is closed to new recruits, initially no problem as a small percentage of the workforce will have a different pension, but as time goes by...10...20 years that percentage will grow until the proportion of the work force that is in the existing scheme become the minority. At this point the minority will not have the leverage if there are any disputes!
For the long term safety of existing scheme members there should really be one pension scheme.