Campaigning to keep the LGPS

UNISON will launch a major campaign in the New Year to counter the hostile
propaganda coming from David Cameron and Eric Pickles on behalf of the
Conservative Party.
Both insist that the LGPS is unsustainable in the long-term and should become a
defined contribution scheme – not a defined benefit scheme as at present. Their view
is that there is “pensions apartheid” between private and public sector pensions and
that the taxpayer should not be asked to fund the LGPS and other public sector
schemes.
We will be telling them that the LGPS is a public good, not a drain on public finances.