You may take our livelihood's but you will never take our pensions! Ok, well you might actually!

I'm not sure if this will end up being a comment of great interest, I suspect it will come across as more of an emotive rant as I'm a public sector worker myself. I have to admit the line 'Public Sector workers are "desperately"holding onto their pension packages' grabbed me because it felt as if it should have been finished off with 'and how dare they'!! Perhaps this is a big assumption on my part but I can almost feel onlookers from the private sector smiling and nodding to each other saying "it's about time". However if like me you have read recent articles to do with the public sector published in HR magazine you can't but help feel the contempt. So, if I am right or not I say "riddle me this - who wouldn't hold onto whatever they could in the midst of a shipwreck?!" There is a perception that the public sector has had it too easy for too long, well one's perception and all that. The fact is it is definitely not the case now with people losing allowances, taking pay cuts, job losses and you would think this would appease the hyenas on the outside - apparently not. I don't speak for other public sector workers, only myself, I realise things have to change and cuts need to be made. If you want flexi-time back because it would help, take it! It's an employee benefit not a right after all. If you want me to pick up that broom and sweep the streets because my new contract says I could be deployed to where the service requires me then ok I will because I want to work, I want to keep my job, a job. However I have invested into my pension for so many years now, why shouldn't I expect it to be fit for purpose and deliver when I get to that point. It's the basic expectation of any product isn't it? You wouldn't buy a car and be happy for it not to have power steering or electric windows because the current financial climate has had an impact but you pay the same money or more for it. The average pension pot is around £2800 per year according to a recent article in the Guardian. Is that still too much for us average public sector workers or won't people be happy until that's gone too?. There are surely more important things to concentrate on in this country right now and tackle other than the 'gold plated pension scheme' we supposedly have. The problem is when it's scrutinised it's from the perspective of the higher earners, it supports the case then doesn't it! However the majority are not in that bracket.