Council strike: support it or not?

[Deleted User]

I have a lot of sympathy with the council workers striking but the rest of the population will have to work to 70 in order to fund the strikers retirement at 60. I don`t believe that the general public will tolerate more strikes

This government is doing too little too late re pensions. It was mentioned in the press years ago but it has been allowed to drift. It is crunch time in a few years and pity help the people who could not, or would not, save

Snapelover

m2712s wrote:

not all councils are the same you voted for your local councilers
you reap what you sow. in the end they decide how it is run.
my coucil tax bill has only risen £20 this year . and the price to pay a once a fortnight rubbish collection a small price.

I am proud to say that I did NOT vote for the labour councillors who actually run my local council - unfortunately, due to the fact that the councillor I voted for is ALWAYS outvoted - I cannot reap what I sow.

alandbailey

Bring back Maggie Thatcher! :T

ReportInvestor

You contradict yourself pretty quickly .

It sounds as if you have as little sympathy as I do with strikers who want to use industrial muscle to retire ahead of their fellow UK citizens.

nelly_2

I cant see myself retireing I had a month of this year and was bored stiff.

m2712s

Snapelover wrote:

I am proud to say that I did NOT vote for the labour councillors who actually run my local council - unfortunately, due to the fact that the councillor I voted for is ALWAYS outvoted - I cannot reap what I sow.

a good reply karin yes i am a council worker but i have to work until iam 65 as i do not meet the 85 year rule . but if you did work for them would you fight for what is yours .fancy been 58 years old looking forward to retirement and been told sorry you have to stay on until you are 65 i do not think it would go down well ?

Bogof_Babe

Nelly, I assume from that post that you are still in full vigorous and working order.

I wanted to work forever when I was 30 - it was satisfying and made me feel relevant, and gave me a reason to get up in the morning.

At 40, after many years of mental exhaustion (I am grateful my job wasn't physical) I realised that I couldn't do this when I was 65.

At 50 I got the opportunity to take redundancy and top up my lifetime savings with my pay-out.

At 54 I wake each day knowing that there is no way I could manage that level of stress even now, never mind in 10/15/20 years time.

This was, needless to say, a private sector "career". I've no experience of the feather-bedding that public sector employees enjoy.

Snapelover

Snapelover wrote:

I have actually paid into a local government pension but haven't worked since 1993 so my money is lying in wait for me. I was led to believe that I would be entitled to it when I was 60 so I don't blame the current workers who are still paying into it under the conditions that they could retire at 60.

You maybe didn't realise that I said the above in a previous post but I do sympathise with people who were led to believe that when they were 60 they would be able to retire.

My problem is my stinking bin!!! It's not my fault, is it.

comping_cat

At first, i didnt have any sympathy for them at all, after all, like OP says, most of us will end up working till we are 70. however when i found out that other council workers had already had an agreement reached for them to retire at 60, and its the lower paid workers that they are trying to change the contracts of, to make them work til 65, i did think that wasnt fair. It should be the same for everyone.

m2712s

i expected a more inteligent reply than that karin and here is a tip for stinking bins try recycling