Conference agrees to fight changes to the LGPS

UNISON pledged to oppose the government’s latest attack on public service pensions in the last session of national delegate conference in Liverpool on Friday afternoon.
The government is proposing changes would allow higher education institutions, further education colleges and sixth form colleges in England to choose not to offer pensions via the local government pension scheme (LGPS) to new staff.
Mike Heinz of the national executive council moving the emergency motion declared that it w