PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - BA pilots 'prepared to strike'?
View Single Post
Old 30th November 2006 | 10:23
  #1129 (permalink)  
BIG MACH
 
Joined: Oct 1998
Posts: 62
Likes: 0
The pension problem is not peculiar to BA. All companies with final salary schemes have had problems, such that most have now been closed. BA staff are fortunate that theirs is still in place. It is natural that you should vent your anger on the company for the parlous state of affairs, but the real culprit is Gordon Brown. Every year since 1997 he has plundered the pension funds to pay for his excesses. When Robert Maxwell did it, he was considered immoral. Gordon Brown is as bad, if not worse. He is plundering your pension fund to increase the size of his electorate in local government and the civil service, all of whom retire at 60 on indexed linked final salary schemes.
Incidentally, the pilots will not strike.
BIG MACH is offline  
Reply