NHS Pensions: Reject the proposals! Fight for our pension rights!
Crucial proposals affecting all NHS workers have once again appeared during the summer holidays, and once again the NHS unions have signed up to give away some of our rights, on proposals that are still only half-written. This time it is pensions. The “final proposals” for the NHS pension scheme have appeared this month, and they spell bad news for both current and future NHS workers. Most current health workers will be forced to pay an additional half percent of their wages into the scheme in order to safeguard our right to retire on a full pension at 60 – a flagrant breach of UNISON's policy...