Some people are quick to criticise striking public sector workers. I'd just like to point out two facts. Firstly, the Members of Parliament who are imposing these public sector pension cuts are going to keep their own final salary schemes. Secondly, the governments own official reports concede that if we kept the system we currently have, the cost of providing public sector pensions would actually fall by up to 20% by 2060.
The fact that some private sector pensions have been decimated should not be used as a justification for the governments actions- two wrongs do not make a right.
In this together? Draw your own conclusions...
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-information-office/M05.pdf (page 3);
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/hutton_pensionsinterim_071010.pdf (page 10)
P.s. I thought long and hard before deciding whether this post is relevant to the thread. Given some of the comments above, I believe it is. Also, for the record I do not work in the public sector.