Latest news on the BBC pensions dispute:

 

 

 

 

NUJ press releases -

 

BBC reps meeting makes key decisions on pensions dispute  

(Tuesday 7 December 2010)

 

(Wednesday 1 December 2010)
 

NUJ suspends BBC pension strikes
(Friday 12 November 2010)
 

BBC pensions dispute, dispelling BBC management's propaganda
(Saturday 6 November 2010)

 

Messages of support for the BBC pensions strike
(Friday 5 November 2010)

 

BBC management in disarray over pensions dispute strategy
(Friday 5 November 2010)

 BBC pensions strike - Live updates
(Thursday 4 November 2010)

 

Support the BBC NUJ strike on Friday and Saturday this week
(Tuesday 2 November 2010)

 

NUJ General Secretary slams David Cameron’s ‘crass and insensitive’ remarks about BBC cuts ( Monday 1 November 2010)

 

BBC dispute: NUJ members refuse to pay more, for less in retirement

(Thursday 28 October 2010)

 

BBC pensions figures denounced as a sham

(Friday 15 October 2010)

 

Union predicts no vote and "winter of growing discontent" at BBC over pensions and jobs

(Tuesday 12 October 2010)

 

(Friday 1 October 2010)

 

Union members at the BBC are still willing to fight to defend pensions

(Tuesday 28 September 2010)

 

NUJ General Secretary on the latest BBC Pension Proposal: "Not acceptable in present form"

(Friday 17 September 2010)

 

The NUJ at TUC Congress - 'co-ordinated action is necessary' 

(Tuesday 14 September 2010)

 

BBC unions name strike dates as talks continue with members  

(Monday 13 September 2010)

 

BBC staff deliver massive mandate for action on pensions

(Wednesday 1 September 2010) 

 

(Monday 23 August 2010)

 

BBC pay and pensions ballot closes 

(Friday 20 August 2010)

 

Activists give out thousands of leaflets to BBC staff as the ballot commences

(Friday 6 August 2010)

 

NUJ condemns BBC pensions hypocrisy

(Monday 26 July 2010)

 

(Wednesday 21 July 2010)

 

(Monday 19 July 2010)

 

Stop the Pensions Robbery: BBC Pensions – Q&A

(Friday 9 July 2010)

 

(Thursday 8 July 2010)

 

(Wednesday 30 June)

 

(Monday 14 June 2010)

 

 

What you can do

 

Get involved in the campaign. We're asking all NUJ members to recruit their colleagues to the NUJ, to make our voice even stronger in our negotiations with management. If you're not already a member – join now.

 

What we want:

 
For the BBC to keep its pensions promises – We want what has been promised to us - which we have already paid for – to be protected.

- A pension cap for senior executives. Some BBC executives can expect to receive pensions over £220,000 a year – yet they are proposing to address the deficit by attacking the pensions of lower paid staff.

- To see the true size of the pension scheme deficit before negotiating a pensions settlement. The BBC Pension Scheme Trustees will not even know the size of the deficit until the triennial valuation reports early next year. By law, they will then have to agree a recovery plan. Instead BBC managers are bypassing Trustees and trying to impose an early, draconian change. Under the current proposals staff are being asked to sign up to radical and irreversible changes without knowing the key facts.

- The current pensions proposals are based on old and questionable figures so we are asking the BBC to delay making changes until the triennial valuation of the scheme is published.

 

In the long term the BBC does not have a pension fund problem because the Corporation closed the final salary scheme to new joiners in 2006. The closure to new entrants means that over time the cost of the scheme will decline significantly. In time the BBC would be spending LESS on pensions than it does now.

 

The NUJ is also concerned about the consequences of the Comprehensive Spending Review for the BBC which will leave the Corporation significantly worse off. Such drastic changes should have been subject to consultation with staff and licence fee payers but the deal was done extremely quickly behind closed doors.

 

We believe quality broadcasting and talented, hardworking staff are the BBC’s best assets. We are asking you to support our campaign to stop the pensions robbery and defend the BBC from cuts.

 

 

Campaign materials -

 

 

NUJ campaign update 1

NUJ campaign update 3

NUJ campaign update 5  

 

 

Work to Rule guidance

 

 

Strike day picket line leaflet for the public

 

 

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