Public-sector strike: does it get your support? Please vote in our Facebook poll

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Morning.

We'd love to know how you feel about Wednesday's public-sector strike action. Does it get your support - or not?

We've put up a little poll on our Facebook page to help us find out. Please do click and vote.

Thanks v much, MNHQ

Maybe we should have a 'strike' topic.

I support it, but I don't have FB.

No FB.

I voted and asked my friends.

Yes, 100% support it.

not on fb

Not on fb so can't vote but do t support it.

think i voted, but 100% yes

Can't put it on FB (work reasons) but a yes here

Absolutely do not support this. Public sector need a reality check.

Not on facebook but - it is clear that there needs to be some reform of public sector pensions. They are increasingly out of step with private sector provision and unaffordable in the long term. Even after all of the recommnedations in the Hutton report are implemented, they will still be more generous than most private sector pensions. It is utterly unrealistic to assume that they can continue as they are and completely ignores the cost to the public purse.

That said, the one recommendation I do not endorse is teachers staying in service to state pension age. I think that you need energy and enthusiasm to teach and with the best will in the world, many people will have lost that by age 68 and therefore no longer be effective and motivational teachers.

support.

The population did not age over night, life expectancy did not increase over night.

The ecconomic down turn did not occur over night, and has been predicted for a while.

If it is not possible to support a long living pensioner population from the schemes, then this must have been apparent for decades. If the scheme needed to be made "less generous" then it could have been done decades ago, with ample notice that from a certain date, new people entering the scheme would do so under a different set of terms and conditions, and they could then have decided whether to to enter the scheme at all. they would have choice.

What they can justify, is to keep signing people up, so that pensioners with 10, 20,30 ,40 years of contributions suddenly have their legal terms and conditions changed andf their pension decimated. These people have no choice, they have no opportunity to make different financial choices and no chance to change their provision to make up for income they have been told to expect for perhaps 40 year.

Murdoch was pilloried for pension theft. Public sector worker are being pilloried for objecting to the government doing the same thing.

well said montysma1

As for a reality check for public sector- how about a pay cut, then freeze that pay for over 2 years (at least) lose your job security... Oh what's left.... Let's attack their pensions too!! This in the current economic climate where cost if living has increased like never before... No reality check needed. Face it.... No one will want to work in NHS much longer...

Don't support the strike for a whole host of reasons I haven't got time to go into at the moment. Don't have facebook.

Never mind people not been able to teach as well when they are 68, what about the nurses? Do you think they will be as on the ball? They do enough running around as it is. Its knackering at 40. Where will they all be sent when they cant work in A and E anymore because they arent fast enough?

Not on FB, don't support it (the strike...and FB actually!).

Support. My DH is striking.

Does the fact that the teacher's pension is entirely in the black and self-funded and supported not make it obvious how ridiculous these amendments are? 'facing up to reality' means realising this and wondering why on earth people who have NOTHING to do with the economic crisis should have to pay for it!

I will be striking

I agree with Goosey. It is sad but true that we can't afford the pensions. in the public sector. She put it so much better than me!

But teachers CAN afford them - that's the point! They're in the black!

Yes, this Cameron led Tory government is loaded against the people. They deserve a strike. Cameron shud ship out to downton Abeey. (Butler)

Supported