The action of private sector bosses in cutting staff’s pensions is likely to threaten the UK’s economy, a leading trade unionist will say today (Monday).
Mike Kirby, Scottish Convenor of UNISON, will – at the STUC Congress in Dundee today - point to the closure of large numbers of decent private sector pension schemes, and raise the spectre of a huge increase in benefits demands by their short-changed staff.
The STUC will call on government to maintain fair and decent public sector pensions, and not to heed misleading calls by the private sector and the media condemning public service workers to reliance on means-tested benefits.
The STUC will back a call for decent pensions for all workers, public and private sector, and go on to call for an increased state pension, linked to earnings.