Summary
THE pressure on the Scottish Executive over pensions reform intensified last night after firefighters pledged to join other unions in taking strike action over changes to public-sector retirement benefits.
Leaders of the Fire Brigades Union in Scotland promised to ballot their 5,000 members to give them a mandate to join 200,000 local government employees in a "co-ordinated campaign" of strikes to protect their pension arrangements.See the full content of this document
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'Fire Crews Feel They've Been Kicked in Teeth'
FBU members in Scotland are angry that the UK government wants to cut pension benefits to all their members, while insisting only that new recruits to the police and ambulance service accept cuts to their ent...
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