In a similar vein, Robin Ellison, head of strategic development for pensions at solicitor Pinsent Masons, is concerned about some aspects of the current package of pension reforms.
George Osborne has been forced to abandon a package of pension reforms, including reducing tax relief for higher earners, amid growing concern that their introduction could have prompted a backlash from affluent voters.
That, in the early hours of Saturday, so many government MPs refused to give their vote to the proposed package of pension and budget cuts, tax rises and administrative reform does not portend well.
Having recently enacted a big and painful package of pension cuts for state workers and teachers, Rhode Island legislators say they are in no mood to help a city's retirees who stripped their own pension fund, often collecting disability pensions when they were well enough to work.
The first is that I believe that the package on pension reform which we have arrived at is a fair one and that it has changed in significant and positive ways as a result both of our consultation with staff and our discussions with the unions.
In exchange for rescue loans of 82-86 billion euros, the Greek government has been forced to agree to an even larger package of pension cuts and tax increases than those its citizens have already rejected.
The FSA has broadened its original ambitions on pay to "wages, bonuses, long-term incentive plans, options, hiring bonuses, severance packages and pension arrangements".
"They have the best pay packet, they have the best pension package - their working conditions, we can only dream of in general haulage.
Unions love them because government projects mean bloated payrolls, pay packages and pensions.
To finesse the blow clever union leaders try, as in New York state, to direct all cuts to future union members, thereby leaving untouched the wage and pension package for current employees and pensioners.
