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Public service unions attempt to prevent pensions erosion — but at what risk?

THE chairperson of the ASTI pensions committee, Bernadine O’Sullivan, commenting (Letters, July 16) on your report of the ICTU conference in Bundoran, highlighted the “very real cut” in lifetime wages arising because workers are being forced to accept defined contribution (DC) pension schemes instead of defined benefit (DB) schemes.

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MORE than 800 retired gardaí who say they are denied their full pension rights had their claim for an increase in payments rejected yesterday by Justice Minister Michael McDowell.

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