New pension age forces teachers to “work till you drop”, union says
Teachers union NASUWT has criticised the government’s move to push the state pension age to 68.
The union’s general secretary, Chris Keates, has said that over the recent years teachers have already faced “hugely detrimental changes to their occupational pensions” and that now on top of all this, “like six million other workers in the UK, are being told they are to be denied access to their state pension until they are even older”.
Keates went on to say that it will make teachers “work until they drop, in a profession already recognised as one of the most stressful in the country”.
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