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Campaign to Defend the LGPS

• Industrial Action Ballot
• UNISON urges you to vote YES

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The ballot on strike action to save our pensions
started on 20 February

• The Government wants to force all local
  government workers to work until 65 or face a cut
  of up to one third in our pensions.

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The Government claims we are all living longer

• Life expectancy for many ordinary people,
  especially in manual and low paid jobs has hardly
  risen in the last twenty years

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They say our pensions cost too much

• Fact average local government pension 3,800
  per year
• Fact - average pension for a woman in LGPS
  1,600
• Average pension for directors in FTSE 100
  Companies - 167,000 per year
• MPs pension - 38,000

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They say they cant afford it

• Many pension schemes took pension holidays when
  funds were high
• That means they did not pay the employers
  contribution into the scheme
• Now they want us to pay

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They claim the 85 year rule breaks European
rules on age discrimination

• Fact The EU spokesperson on employment, social
  affairs and equal opportunities, Katherina von
  Schnurbein, has confirmed that this is not true

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Our pensions arent free Weve paid for them

• We pay 6 from our own pay toward our pensions
• The employers contribution is deferred wages
  in other words we are paid less now to enable us
  to build a pension.

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Local government workers being treated worst of
all

• Members of the Teachers, Civil Service, and NHS
  pension schemes have been offered protection for
  life.
• In Local Government anyone born after 1 April
  1953 will be hit straight away.

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Together we can defend our pensions

• Last March the Government were forced to retreat
  from the attack on our pensions by the prospect
  of united strike action on 23 March 2005
• Ten unions representing over 1.5 million workers
  are balloting. This would be the biggest strike
  action since the 1926 General Strike

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Vote YES to defend our pensions

• Ballot started 20 February
• If you have not received a ballot paper by 25
  February call 0845 355 0845

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