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Old 3rd November 2008 | 17:13
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Dan Dare
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My pension is part of my pay package.

It may be inconvenient, but it is an essential cost for as long as my services are required. Airlines can't look at increasing fuel prices and say its too expensive so they're no longer going to pay for it. They should not feel that they can do similarly with our conditions.

If I appear too expensive then market forces require the industry to look at other options. The "easy" option would be to persuade me that I am too expensive and want a reduced pay package or that I'm not doing enough work. I remain unpersuaded on either count. You could try to employ fewer of my colleagues by use of e.g. AAVAs to mask the fact that we are heavily understaffed - well its been working to date, but people are now turning them down and not seeing them as the benefit they seemed. You could try to replace me with a computer as some of those employed at CTC are doing. They may get there in the end, but it willl be very expensive to get there and it won't happen before I retire. In the meantime my pension must be paid.

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