Trade union Unison backs WASPI campaign

Unison said it will provide WASPI with a "generous and considerable" financial donation that will be used towards the campaign's running costs. The WASPI campaign began in 2015 and challenges changes to the state pension age (SPA) for women, first made in the 1995 Pensions Act and later accelerated in 2011 - it argues the reforms placed an unfair burden on hundreds of thousands of women born in the 1950s.  Under the 1995 Pensions Act, the government indicated the official SPAs of both men and women would be equalised by 2020. Previously, women retired at 60, while men stopped work at ...