CWU joins union appeal against damaging pension changes
10th February 2012
The CWU has joined other trade unions who have lodged an appeal against the High Court's ruling in favour of the Government's change in the uprating of public sector pensions.
The Government's move from RPI to CPI for the payment of benefits and indexation of pensions will result in smaller pensions for millions of public sector workers.
A number of unions lodged an appeal against the High Court's Ruling at a meeting of the TUC Executive Committee on Tuesday 7 February 2012.
CWU general secretary Billy Hayes
said: "This is another expression of our support for the
important work being done to oppose this change - a policy which we
opposed as soon as it was announced."
The decision to uprate pensions from the RPI index to CPI, was announced by George Osborne in his June 2010 emergency budget which came into effect in April 2011.
Unions lost their high court challenge to the changes at the beginning of December 2011.
CPI has risen by a smaller amount over the past two years than RPI, and doesn't contain certain costs included in the latter, such as council tax, mortgage interest, house depreciation, TV and road fund licences.
The appeal hearing is due to take place on Monday/Tuesday 20/21
February 2012. Join the CWU and other trade unions as they protest
against these pension changes on Monday 20th February outside the
Royal Courts of Justice. Find out more: Protest against pension
changes.
