I was planning to use my pension lump sum to pay off my mortgage and for a university fund. I now have to decide which child I like best.
Based on what exactly? If all the doom merchants are right and we get very little above RPI for the next few years then it will have absolutlely no affect on you-will it?
If a bung had indeed been offered but turned down, then havent management and the union lied to us by saying that there was nothing more available than the proposal? (and also that there was no plan b, the bung would have been it?). Surely this must be illegal??? You cant give false information in order to try and swing a vote. That webpage that got pulled looks much more suspicious too now, about how nats know how to manage the union and close pension schemes...
Why would the unions take a bung over something they believe is fundamentally the right thing to do for the scheme? If they know that money is there then it makes more sense to get it as part of the 2009 pay and so everyone gets it long term, and dare I say it-pensionable.
(I know a handful of people did not receive ballot papers
Such a shame they don't have the nouse to pick up the phone and ask for one. It was a 3 week ballot after all-surely enoughtime for even the dimmest amongst us.