Your strikes today

[callmemadam]

Placard seen this morning:
'HAND'S OFF MY PENSION'

I do hope it wasn't written by a teacher.

Comments

[aellia.livejournal.com]

I saw that,too!

[gwendraith.livejournal.com]

*Snigger* ;) We are off to Stansted in a bit. Looking good there and flights are getting away on time. Not sure if arrivals are experiencing delays.

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

There isn't a Tory MP called Mr Hand, is there?

[mimmimmim.livejournal.com]

I must admit, I'm feeling a bit unsympathetic towards the strikers. I'm earning below the national average myself, no payrise this year... and then the MiL bleats on about how all these changes mean family members working in the NHS can't retire at 55! I can't retire until 67. So, not very sympathetic.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Modern myths: graduates earn above average salaries; people earn more in the private sector. A few years before he died my husband went to a university reunion. Of the class of '69 only two (including him) were still working! The ones with public sector jobs had all retired on comfortable pensions in their early fifties.

[dozydormouse.livejournal.com]

Hmm suggest you compare my public sector pension with a comparable private one. Difference is approx 10K. I never minded this. I wa shappy to trade the flexi, pension etc but I am somewhat fed up of being treate dlike public emeny no.1 simply for wishing the Government to stick to the terms of the contract we agreed when I joined them in 2002. That says retire at 60 btw I knew that would never happen and I was resigned to working until 65 and just getting a little local job until I qualified for a state pension.

I didn't strike - as a rule I don't. That does not mean I am not angry.

[(Anonymous)]

I laughed right out when I read this!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

:-)

made me laugh!

[(Anonymous)]

Very funny. Couldn't agree more re the 'unsympathetic' thing!

Caroline @ What's Happening at My House

Re: made me laugh!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I don't want anyone to suffer but since everyone is hurting I don't see why one section of society should be protected. We British like fair play!