I teach and have decided to strike because, as far as I can tell, I'm going to loose out. Don't ask me to justify that - I read up and still don't really have a clue as to what's going on. Who's for/against?
TV crew: Baron, why are you striking today?Baron: Because the government are cutting my pension whilst increasing my contributions and working life not to administer an unwieldy fund but divert my contribution to patching the enormous treasury created by all parties fiscal policy and the particular costs of supporting reckless banking practices without making any meaningful attempt to recover the bastronomical revenues lost through tax avoidance and evasion which really would help us manage our budget.
already has bankrupted our country.
Regardless of anything, facts are very simple,
But there are rather a lot of them to choose from. And that isn't simple at all.
..I then look at the greasy woman down the street who's never had a job in her life and has just bought another 3 year old car and start feeling bad again.
It's a tricky situation - like as been said, there used to be an understanding that public sector workers on average were lower paid than private sector but had the benefit of a hefty pension that was far in excess of any private sector pension.I'm not convinced that's true anymore.