Pensions: Academic ballot
University workers across Britain are being balloted over whether to fight to prevent the closure of their University Superannuation Scheme, a final salary arrangement.
Pensions
Pensions
Pensions: academics ballot over action
29 December 2017
University workers across Britain are being balloted over whether to fight to prevent the closure of their University Superannuation Scheme, a final salary arrangement.
Defeat for government over pension scheme
7 July 2017
Government guidance issued in September 2016 to force Local Government Pension Scheme investments to meet government policies has been thrown out by the High Court.
No, we're not living longer
The phrase “we are all living longer” has been a well rehearsed slogan to justify an endless attack on state and occupational pension entitlement.
Mini and Rolls workers fight pension cuts
23 February 2017
Talks between the Unite union and BMW over the German carmaker’s plans to close its final salary pension scheme are set to continue, but the threat of industrial action remains.
Pensions: later and later [updated]
3 October 2016
A review of the state pension age is due to be released in early 2017. We can expect the media to trail snippets to prepare the ground. But the apparently independent review will simply copy the World Bank and IMF line on how to bust up a country’s state pension system.
The EU's pensions vendetta
The EU’s latest pensions directive is a direct threat to the dwindling number of final salary schemes in Britain.
Pensions after Brexit
The referendum campaign blunted one EU attack on pensions. Now the real pensions fight must begin.
Pensions - Progress at Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce bucks the trend and has taken the brave decision to support its British workforce and maintain its final salary pension scheme.
Fresh attack on local government pensions
13 January 2016
The Centre for Policy Studies, regarded by the late Margaret Thatcher as her favourite think tank, has produced the blueprint for the next government attack on the Local Government Pension Scheme.
Council procurement policies under attack
12 October 2015
In yet another attack on civil liberties, the government has announced plans to to change the law so that councils may only disinvest, boycott or adopt sanctions if the action is in line with government policy.
Osborne eyes local government pensions, again
12 October 2015
The new National Infrastructure Commission has less to do with planning than with stealing money from workers’ pension funds to do what the government should be doing anyway, and isn’t.
A liveable state pension for the older generations?
20 September 2015
1 October is Older People’s Day, when the National Pensioners Convention will make the case – in leaflets to be distributed across the country – for a state pension that people can live on.
'Massive pain' promised for Tata after huge pensions strike vote
31 May 2015
Members of Community, GMB and Ucatt have voted decisively for strike action in a dispute with Tata Steel over pensions.
Unions call for strike mandate over steel pensions changes
30 March 2015
Steel trade unions with members employed by Tata Steel are balloting for strike action over imposed changes to the pension scheme.
Executive pay: All in it together?
25 January 2015
German executive pay has outstripped the level in Britain for the first time. But British directors are doing their best to catch up – to the detriment of the country’s largest companies and their workers.
MPs foresee end of state pension
14 December 2014
Questioned in an online survey, MPs said that the state pension age would need to rise to 70 within 30 years – with many believing that the state pension would disappear altogether.
Pensioners’ Manifesto launched
6 November 2014
The National Pensioners Convention launched its Pensioners’ Manifesto yesterday at a rally of hundreds of pensioners in Westminster. There was a curious mood: polite but determined.
Class, Country and Control
Class, Country and Control
Document adopted at the Reconvened 12th Congress of the CPBML, October 2000.
Class, Country and Control
1 October 2000
Document adopted at the Reconvened 12th Congress of the CPBML, October 2000.