On 19/02/2018 18:09, Roger Hayter wrote:
Perhaps they're just worth more in pension than you are? Or, more
likely, you are just cowed by the bosses into accepting considerably
less than you deserve in pension. Why should others copy you because
you don't insist on what you are worth?


-- Roger Hayter

Nobody 'deserves' anything that they have not made any effort
towards.

Public service pensions and closed-shop jobs-for-the-boys are
classic examples.

For years the unions bullied BSC into pay rises that just
exponentially increased the pension black hole. No-one
considered this back in the black years of the 1970's when
12 million person-days were lost to strikes. The actuaries still
thought that men would retire at 65 and be mostly dead by 73
when now the figure is far higher. Someone has to pay for all those
extra years. Free lunches don't exist.