Shropshire college lecturers in pension changes strike action
Thursday 24th March 2011, 12:01PM GMT.
College lecturers across Shropshire set up picket lines today as part of a national day long strike in protest against pension changes.
About 20 staff from Telford College of Arts and Technology, a dozen at Oswestry’s Walford and North Shropshire College and others at the Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology protested about the changes as other staff and students arrived for lessons.
Across Britain tens of thousands of members of the University and College Union walked out of 500 universities and colleges.
Mike Smith, the union’s branch chairman, who works at Walford and North Shropshire College, said members were set to lose many thousands of pounds from the pensions.
“We are being expected to pay more into our pensions, to work for more years and to get less,” he said.
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Shame isn’t it, however I have never seen these chaps stick up for the rights of support staff so I assume they will get little support from them. From my experience when a batch of redundancies came the lecturers always got a better deal than support staff and the excuse from the union of which support staff were members was ” they will find it harder to get a job with the same pay and conditions” when a person is to lose his job it matters not what position they hold the deal for both should be fair .
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