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FOUR unions are taking legal action against the government’s “robbery” and “looting” of public-sector workers’ pensions.
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU), Prison Officers’ Association (POA), public-service union PCS and general union GMB are seeking a judicial review over the government’s withholding of improved pension benefits.
The unions say the government is in breach of a key component of the new public-service pension schemes, which came into force in April 2015, requiring the adjustment of pension benefits if the cost to the government is shown to have increased or dropped outside of a target rate.
In part IV of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells how austerity minister Francis Maude’s attempt to destroy the PCS Civil Service union totally backfired
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
