The only pay they will get will be in the form of strike pay from their unions. The employers will not pay NI or pensions contributions for any day, or part day, when an employee is striking.

they paid in for their pension and the money should have been ring fenced and sensibly invested to provide their pensions, like the Gas Board did, not frittered away by government who have now decided they can't pay them what they reckon they have paid in for.

The average pension expected by most public sector workers is well below the £6,000 quoted, caretakers and cleaners would be rolling in it if they got that amount.

The buggers that have mismanaged the pension funds will get a ring fenced pension of about £30,000 a year even those that committed fraud and theft when they were in power. PLUS they avoided prosecution by the lily livered twats in charge of the CPS; when the rest of us would have been done and lost jobs and pensions even if we managed to avoid jail.

The government is trying to change their contracts half way through the job by lowering pensions and lengthening the work time needed to qualify for one.

No wonder they are striking.