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A repository for reports, opinions and bits of writing on labour, trade union and other issues by a union activist and retired social worker.

Sunday 26 March 2006

They've picked the wrong fight on pensions

Speech to Edinburgh pensions Rally 28 March 2006: This morning, several of us here went to St Andrews House to see and deliver a letter to Tom McCabe, the Scottish Executive Minister for Finance and Local Government Reform. The man who says he's going to cut your pension rights in Scotland.

Our letter told him that the arbitrary decision he made about pensions undermined everything the Executive had said before about valuing the work of local government staff, delivering first class public services - very often in very difficult circumstances.