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Robin Blackburn, author of Banking on Death, or, Investing in Life: The history and future of pensions, spoke at the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty London forum on 17 February 2005.
The pension issue is the one which has proved time and again that it can get really large numbers of working people fighting for their rights and for a better world.
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The Executive of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), meeting on 9 February, decided to call for a new strike to defend public sector pensions on 28 March.
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Rita Ash, Tower Hamlets Unison branch chair, has been a union activist for most of her working life. She spent many of them ensuring that women who were affected by their exclusion from the pension scheme get a gratuity payment as compensation, even years after they left the service. Here she talks about the reality of pensions for many older women.
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At the pre-92 UCU conference last Tuesday a sizeable majority of delegates - 66 to 41 - voted in favour of suspending industrial action over the USS dispute.
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Ealing and Kirklees are among the latest local government branches of the public services union Unison to demand a special local government conference of the union on pensions, and Oxfordshire Health branch is pushing for a special health conference.
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The Executive of the University and College Union (UCU) has called strike action over public sector pensions for Thursday 1 March.
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Workers at food and cleaning products manufacturer Unilever have begun an 11-day programme of rolling strike action at sites across the UK in an attempt to defeat bosses’ plans to scrap their final-salary pension schemes. It is the joint strategy of the three unions involved: Unite, USDAW and the GMB.
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An industrial bulletin for local government workers, discussing how to organise against the pensions sell out.
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An industrial bulletin for healthworkers, discussing how to organise against the pensions sell-out.
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The decision of Unite’s local government committee to follow the lead of its health committee in rejecting the latest pensions offer is a significant development in the fight to defeat the government’
