Pension Protests.

Its reported that over 750,000 demonstrated taking time off work and closing some government departments and schools. Yet all we seem to hear about are the so called well paid whinging teachers. One of them saying that they hadn't had a pay rise for two years well wake up and smell the coffee, so have millions of other workers. Then we had one who said that she didn't have to pay more into her pension to support the people with  private sector pensions. Again is this the calibre of teachers we have today? People in the public sector have pensions paid at around 13% contribution by the public, more than private sector employees are paying to their workers. 84% of public sector workers are in a pension scheme compared to 34% in the private sector. I think that that says a lot about who is getting the better pension deals. Again its the teachers who are complaining how hard they are done to. Lloyd's bank is getting rid of another 15,000 employees by 2015 this brings their numbers redundant to 45,000. In the public sector we have police officers and council workers loosing their jobs. How many teachers have lost their jobs due to financial cuts? Then we hear their union leaders say that teachers will leave the profession in droves. Where are they going to find employment when thousands of better qualified people are loosing their jobs? Once again doesn't this show how out of touch with reality many teachers are they live in an ivory tower, their pension has been protected year on year now they are going to have to contribute towards the pain we are all having to suffer.