Give the Pensions Bill the chop
Urgent: Have you contacted your MP and played your part
in giving the Pensions Bill the chop?
You may now have heard about the government’s unfair plans to
change the State Pension Age. Five million men and women in
their late 50s are affected, and will have to wait longer for their
state pension. Half a million women will have to wait over a year
for their pension, and 33,000 will have to wait a full two years.
Most of our members are affected, and we all need to take action to
unite for pensions for women, for men and for all our futures.
Please find enclosed a model letter to MPs and a briefing on the
issues affecting our members. Please could you encourage as many
members as possible to write to their MP over the Summer
months. The Bill will be debated again in parliament in the
Autumn. The feedback we’ve had from MPs is that every single email,
letter and phone call makes a difference.
Not only are their plans unfair, they also break a promise the
Tories and Lib Dems made not to do this in the Coalition Agreement.
The Labour opposition is going to argue that the Pensions Bill
should be abandoned, because the proposals on the state pension age
are so unfair.
Please do let us know if you receive a reply from your MP. You
can email me at siobhan.endean@unitetheunion.org
Many thanks for supporting this urgent campaign.
Yours in Unity
Siobhan Endean
National Officer for Equalities
