Hard medicine for public sector

Jonathan Stapleton discusses union reaction to Hutton

Jonathan Stapleton
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How times change. Just two years ago, unions were bashing ‘fat cat' private sector bosses for taking multi-million pound increases in their pension pots while tens of thousands of private sector workers saw their final salary schemes closed to new members or shut entirely and replaced with cheaper, more sustainable alternatives.

Now we have the government bashing public sector executives earning as much as twice the prime minister's salary and taking home multi-million pound pension pots. The unions are unusually silent on...

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