Fair play demands that all sectors share the pain

WHAT value union representation?

Some time ago Peter McLoone of IMPACT clearly signalled a pension levy on public servants.Accordingly, it was very convenient formally to introduce it to the social partners at a very late hour thereby enabling the union representatives to “collapse” the talks and be seen by their members as resisting the levy. What hypocrisy!

If the Government is interested in real fairness the pension levy must also apply to politicians and changes must be made to their superannuation scheme.