Treasury: strike action threatens your pensions

Chief secretary Danny Alexander, writing in today's Telegraph, warned union members: "Do not let the union bosses sacrifice your pension for their political platform." "It is unjustifiable the taxpayer should work longer and pay more tax so that public sector workers can retire earlier and get more than them," said Alexander. "We have been in constructive, positive and frank discussions with the TUC about these issues. It is disappointing that a minority of unions seem hell-bent on premature strike action before these discussions are even complete. "A strike now might be in the int...