NIPSA Launches Facts Booklet on Pensions
NIPSA Launches Facts Booklet on Pensions
17/10/2011
NIPSA has launched a new booklet "Public Sector Pensions: Myths and Facts" to challenge the misinformation on the issue being fed to the mainstream media by Government and anti-public sector corporate think tanks.
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NIPSA the largest public sector trade union in Northern Ireland has launched a new booklet “Public Sector Pensions: Myths and Facts” to challenge the misinformation on the issue being fed to the mainstream media by Government and anti-public sector corporate think tanks.
NIPSA General Secretary, Brian Campfield, said:-
“This booklet clearly sets out the facts on public sector pensions. It highlights how, far from the myth of ‘Gold-plated’ pensions, the average public sector pension is £7,000 with half of public sector pensioners receiving less than £5,600. The real cost of public sector pensions is forecast to fall over the next 50 years and the real pensions divide is not between public and private sector workers it is between the boardroom and the workplace with Directors’ pensions 34 times the average public sector pension and 74 times that of the average local government employee. The Government is attacking public sector workers – stealing their deferred pay and asking them to pay more and work longer for a pension that has been devalued. In terms of pension, public sector workers are being robbed, private sector workers are being abandoned. All workers, public and private sector are being sacrificed to pay for the recklessness and greed of the banks”.
NIPSA is balloting 43,500 of its members for strike action on the 30 November over pension attacks, pay cuts and massive job loses across the public services. NIPSA is coordinating its ballot with unions in all parts of the public sector. The NIPSA ballot that commenced on Monday, 10 October 2011 closes on November 7.
ENDS
The publication will be launched at an event at 12.00 noon on Thursday, 20 October 2011 in the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre, 45/47 Donegall Street, Belfast.
The media is invited to attend this event.
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