High Court Lobby to protest at 'multi-million pound raid on public service pensioners

Hundreds of public service trade unionists are assembling in London this morning to demonstrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice - in support of the unions’ legal challenge to the imposed switch from RPI to CPI for up-rating of pensions. Dave Prentis said: "UNISON is backing this judicial review because we cannot allow the coalition to run roughshod over pensioners:

"The way that a country treats its citizens when they retire is a mark of a decent and fair society. The government has stepped over that mark - the switch is nothing but a cynical, multi-million pound raid on pensioners to pay down a deficit they did nothing to cause. This flawed measure of inflation does not even include housing costs - a major expenditure for many retired people.”
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