MR ELLIOT Smith (Echo letters, February 21) offers no real solutions.
Few people, like university lecturers, these days get final salary pensions. Most people now get contribution-related pensions. The university pension scheme is in deficit. The employers pay 18% of salary, the lecturers 8% of salary.
If the employers paid more, they would have less money for teaching and research. If the lecturers were asked to pay more, they would not be pleased. Is Mr Elliot asking the taxpayers, who may not be so well rewarded as the lecturers, to pay more in taxes?
The strike will not produce more money. The strike will harm the students, who are in no way at all involved in the matter.
True, the university could perhaps be run more efficiently, and the top salaries reduced to a more fair level. But that would not meet the deficit.
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