Unions Lose High Court Battle Over Pensions

Tax relief for private pensions costs the taxpayer more than public sector pensions. Of course, most of this go to the highest earners.

Let's see the figures for life expectancy after retirement of the average public sector worker because working shifts reduces life expectancy by years plus all the other disadvantages of working in a physical job until 67. I know of very few people who live past 75 in the south wales valleys so where is the money gone??

Fat cat Union Leaders with their pumped up pensions with an I'm alright jack mentality, what example are they setting.

Just shows how stupid the Unions are. The Public Sector have pensions the rest of us can only dream about. It is a fact that we are all living longer so it follows that people have not paid enough to take this increase into account. Yet again the Unions are wasting more public money on fighting a bad case

I thought the government set the rules and laws in the country, not self centered trade unions who live in the dark ages. And why are they wasting members fees on court costs. Well if your the likes of crow and prentice and their cronies earning 6 figure salaries and GOLD PLATED PENSIONS! it gives them some form of righteous platform to justify their existence.

To all you people calling the civil service unions useless, please take note:

The battle to preserve pension rights to increase by the higher RPI traditonally used instead of the lower and recently-introduced CPI was on behalf of everyone in the UK under the Human Rights Act (Social Security posessions) who pays into a works pensions now or is retired.

Now they have lost the case, almost everyone's work pensions (private sector and civil service) will increase by the lower amount, which means people will lose on average 1% a year every year off their pension for each year that they have worked and paid into an employer pension scheme i.e. over 40% for a young person/person about 30 years' old.

Not so smug or anti-union now eh?

From a hard-working civil servant (who like almost of my colleagues) hits his targets all the time, does more work ina day than he has to and only receives £16,000 a year with at best, the chance of a £2-3k pension after possibly 30 yrs work now the CPI battle/pensions reforms have kicked in!

At last some common sense!!

It's time we saw what the MP's pensions were like. They are the ones who's pension are protected against anything. Their pension rules don't change.
Instead of just attacking the normal lower paid civil servants people should ask to see the governments pension pots......

What did the Unions expect, the Judge to side with them?

No! Dont tell me these Unions can't controll the High Court, they told me they controlled everything!
including the muppets in the public sector or was that the PUB sectot, where they get their Fat Bellys!

"Hardworking serving teachers and their retired colleagues who have given a lifetime of service to children and young people were looking for justice"

And what about the millions of hard working private sector workers, who put in longer hours for more years with less time off and without a gold plated pension? And who already pay more into the public sector funds than public sector workers do. It's about time the balance was eredressed, so get used to it

Good - you lost lol

@#$% the unions.

Unions and Benefits - the two biggest diseases of our generation. The first promotes laziness and incompetence. The second rewards it.

Maybe they should use the "we've magically suddenly got loads of money to give away to all and sundry" calculation.

What do these old Etonians know or care about justice for the lower orders ? Osbourne ,Cameron and Boris probably fagged for 'em !

Useless bloody unions spending poor peoples money earning a large lump for doing nothing

right or wrong the courts always agree with the goverment as raising funds for goverment is the main purpose of the courts most of our laws are there to raise revenue nothing else. rich prats helping other rich prats the system is the problem

Teachers that can't spell, NHS hospitals that go "off duty" at weekends, policemen who don't police.

It's time that public "servants" first provided some "service" to the public. Then they could moan about their pay and pensions.

Reform is urgently needed - let's get on with it.

What Planet are these people living on? The vast majority of hard working people in the private sector have to fund their own pensions - How about this for an idea - work hard and earn your own pension - stop expecting everybody else to pay for you...it is called taking responsibility for your own future.