Why Should We Taxpayers Fund Civil Service Pensions?

In theory we all work our backsides off to get a better standard of living and a better pension for when the time comes.

So why should Civil Servants (who generally start work at 9 am, finish at 4 pm with a lunchbreak) expect to get a bigger pension than the rest of us?

I say NEVER, NEVER, NEVER!

And if you want to go on strike in a couple of weeks time, then do so. When you get back to work things will  be exactly the same, and you will have lost a days pay that you can never regain.

Go ahead STRIKE fools!

Didn't get a single response, does that mean that POE is made up of Civil Servants? lol

Bottom line is that if they continue with their strikes, the UK will end up like Greece and THEN you will have something to bellyache about!

Get real Civil Servants, ask yourselves why you should get more than the Private Sector, you'll be unable to justify it so shut up, go back to work and give us all a break. Remember, the money you lose striking will NEVER be made up.

I also happened to  notice via the television news that the 'worried' strikers were all smiling, laughing and joking with each other as they marched! Hmmmn...

Hi Brenda. Basically anyone employed by the Local Authorities, Councils etc are considered 'Civil Servants'. From those who pay out Government benefits/pensions to millions, to Pest Control Officers, Teachers, Prison Wardens etc. The list is endless!

That said, the private sector is beginning to take over some of the jobs so who knows where it will end up?

It's a hot potato thats for sure, and I have only scratched the surface here, but I just don't see why we tax payers should have to support Civil Servants when their 'lifestyle' (hours worked daily) is so much better than 'Mr Average' who works his backside off and gets nowhere!

Unions in my opinion (and yes they are powerful in numbers) are a complete waste of time because of their one man, one job policy. What the employer needs is a member of staff who will turn his/her hand to anything, thus avoiding having to employ unnecessary additional staff, thus making the company profitable to pay the taxman, to give us all a decent living.

I say let the Civil Servants continue to strike, don't give in to them in any way whatsoever, and when at given time they refuse to go back to work, dismiss them! Then fill their jobs with people who will work for what the Civil Servants are getting today, regardless of how much they will receive in pensions. 

I was just going to add for Brenda that the main issue at the monent is Pensions. After 19 years when i left my firm that had a Final Salary pension scheme where you had to pay more and more for less and less.

So, when i left, I took my pension out and also drew it as well, early. !9 years service of paying thousands into a pension plan has paid out peanuts, and is taxable to boot at 20% as I'm still working.  

For Brenda, here's who is moaning about what.........

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13791255

Our local paper reporting on the schools that were closed because of the strikes began the story with----children loose a day's education.

The paper didn't seem very concerned that in April, schools were closed for 3 weeks; they went back to school for 3 weeks then had another week off. So, schools being closed for 4 weeks out of 8 for these two months wasn't an issue.  Children loosing 5 hours education in one day apparently now is an issue to headline the story with. 

And both Labour and Conservativ governments love pension funds too; there wasGordon Brown's £5 billion raid on pension companies a few years ago. 

Thatcher's Conservative government was a bit more sublte during her Privatisation years of the mid-1980s.  When the National Bus Company was privatised--which made a few people extremely wealthy and probably why 18 of the 22 train operating companies are now owned by bus groups formed after privatisation---what wasn't privatised was the NBC pension fund; indeed it just seemed to vanish ( into government coffers).

Strangley, it took ages for anyone to realise what had happened and the Conservatives weren't giving it back when they got found out. After years of wrangling it finally ended up the the High Court where the outcome was the government had to hand back the pension fund they had made disappear.