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March 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), which represents more than half of all civil service personnel across Britain, said the government’s proposals were turned down by 90.5 percent of respondents in a consultation ballot.
The 250,000-strong union also said 71.2 percent of participants in the ballot want more strikes over the government’s refusal to offer them fairer pension terms.
“Civil and public servants can see that this government simply wants to make them pay for the mistakes of bankers and politicians, and have rejected by a massive margin this attack on their pensions,” PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said.
“Ministers must now seriously engage in negotiations on the core issues if they want a settlement,” he added.
This comes as the National Union of Teachers is already planning a strike in London on March 28 over the pensions dispute with the government.
The government has switched inflation indexation used to calculate pensions rises that is deemed to devalue pensions, while at the same time raising the retirement age and increasing workers’ annual pension contributions.
Unions representing millions of British public sector workers have been fighting the government’s “attack” on their pensions saying the state pensions reform policy pushes them further down the poverty scale.
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