Mind The Pensions Gap! - rail unions launch national pensions campaign
RMT: March 3 2006
THE GENERAL secretaries of the UK's rail unions will launch a national campaign today to defend the pension rights of the industry's workforce.
Mind The Pensions Gap!
Railworkers' Open Meetings:
9 March, Cardiff, 18.30 hrs - The Sandringham Hotel, St Mary St, Cardiff;
5 April, Bristol, 18.30 hrs - GWRSA Railway Club, Lower Incline, Bristol Temple Meads
Keith Norman of ASLEF, Bob Crow of RMT, Gerry Doherty of TSSA and John Wall of CSEU will hold a joint media conference at 10:00 on Monday March 6 in room 1 of the Congress Suite at Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS
The campaign's essential demands will include keeping contributions at agreed levels, maintaining benefits, keeping schemes open to new entrants and moving towards a single pension fund for all rail employees.
A series of meetings with railway workers will be held UK-wide by the three general secretaries in a tour that will take in
Cardiff (March 9), York (March 21), Glasgow (March 28), Edinburgh (March 29), Birmingham (April 3), Bristol (April 5), Perth (at the STUC, April 11), Manchester (April 19) and London (April 20).