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Perthshire GP fears industrial action if threat to doctors' pensions is not lifted
A prominent Tayside GP does not think doctors should pay more towards their pensions and work to the age of 68, and he hopes the Scottish Government will step in to avoid the issue leading to industrial action. (...)
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Unions not ready to sign off on public sector pensions
Government celebrations over the prospective resolution of the civil service pensions row would be ''a tad premature,'' the Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC) has told The Courier. (...)
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Labour fail in bid to close Holyrood on public sector strike day
Labour MSPs have failed in an unprecedented bid to shut down Holyrood during a strike by public sector workers. (...)
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'Enough is enough' — teachers vote for national strike on November 30
Families across the country are set to be hit by the first national strike in Scottish schools for almost 25 years. (...)
Lecturers at newest universities balloted on industrial action
Lecturers at Abertay University and other modern universities in Scotland have been balloted on possible strike action. (...)
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St Andrews University staff join UCU pension change action
St Andrews University lecturers took to the streets on Wednesday in protest at ''unfair'' changes to their pension rights. (...)
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'Sustained campaign' of industrial action starts at universities on Monday
Dundee and St Andrews universities are to be hit by industrial action next week. (...)
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Scottish Government urged to control 'eye-watering' pay-offs for civil servants
Scottish civil servants shared a £49 million early retirement windfall last year. (...)
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Scottish Government warned of £8.4m-a-month penalty if it fails to impose public sector pension reforms
The Scottish Government has been "threatened" with a budget cut worth £100 million if it refuses to implement controversial Westminster public sector pension reforms. (...)
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Unions combine to threaten widest industrial action since 1926
The UK faces the biggest wave of industrial action since the General Strike brought the country to a halt in 1926. (...)
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Public sector union leader says pension proposals are a tax on workers
A Tayside union leader has blasted government plans to increase public sector pension contributions, branding the proposal a tax on workers "by the back door." (...)
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Pensioners' group in poverty line claim
A leading voice for the elderly in Dundee has claimed that the failure of successive governments to raise the state pension has left many older people living below the poverty line. (...)
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Scottish university staff are set to join UK-wide strike
Staff at Scottish universities seem set to take part in a UK-wide strike next week, with no sign of a dispute over proposed changes to their pensions being resolved. (...)
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St Andrews University staff walk out in pensions protest
Staff at St Andrews University are walking out today after 11th-hour talks to avert industrial action failed. (...)
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Mass strikes threatened over public sector pensions overhaul
Scotland could face an unprecedented and crippling wave of strikes after a new report called for a radical overhaul of public sector pensions. (...)
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Threat of strike action looms over eight Scottish universities
Well over 130,000 students at eight Scottish universities, including St Andrews and Dundee, will be hit with strike action this month unless a dispute over changes to staff pensions can be resolved. (...)
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Successive governments blamed for pensioners' heating troubles
The plight of many pensioners failing to heat their homes properly is the legacy of government failings, it has been claimed. (...)
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Former MSP Keith Raffan accused of 'milking' system with TV work
A former Fife-based MSP has been accused of "milking" the system by taking a lucrative TV job while claiming a £15,000-a-year public pension because he is too sick to work. (...)
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Lecturer accuses the working retired of 'sheer and utter greed'
A Dundee lecturer has broken ranks to hit out at colleagues who are going back to work after picking up fat pension pay-offs. (...)
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Concerns over end of Fife's delivery and pension collection services
It was claimed vulnreable people will be placed at risk and in danger of being exploited when Fife Council's shopping delivery and pension collection services are controversially withdrawn next month. (...)
