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In article , Adrian
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:59:08 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Teachers ... a guaranteed free pension.

Free pension? So my aunt should demand back all the payments she's
made into her pension scheme?

It was certainly 'free' at one time. And not a funded pension, but
paid from taxation.

"Paid for by other people" is an odd definition of "free".

So this free pension was once paid for by everybody else, but is now
paid for by the teacher themselves.

Once upon a time, many jobs in the public sector provided free this and
free that and the salaries were based on those "free" things. Someone
decided that it was difficult to make comparisons with outside jobs
under these circumstances and the salaries were raised to compensate for
the loss of these free things.

And ended up with salaries well above the comparable work in the private
sector.

if you are referring to teachers, those in the private sector earn a lot
more than those in the state one.

Not in the roman catholic systemic schools they don’t.