As all nationalists know, the ‘Trinity Mirror Group’, publisher of the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror, has joined forces with anti-fascist groups to print lies and smear stories, in a vain attempt to dissuade people from supporting the British National Party.
How interesting is it, that journalists claim to represent the working class, but just like their paymasters in Parliament they enjoy fat salaries, generous perks, and nice gold plated pensions? They do not suffer the hardships that ordinary working people do.
So it is with a degree of schadenfreude I hear the welcome news that owing to the downturn in dead tree press revenue, TMG is to close its final salary pension scheme to existing members due to the increased cost of providing the service.
The publisher, which owns five national newspapers including the Mirror and the Sunday Mirror along with a string of regional titles, announced late last week the move was necessary as its pension fund deficit had risen from £37m in 2001 to £275m by June.
The decision was communicated across the publishing group via an email memo late on Friday. It said the company would implement the change after a two-month consultation with its staff.
TMG closed the scheme to new members in 2003 but said the state of the financial markets, new regulations and rising life expectancy made it necessary to implement the change to existing members.
The group’s 3,000 active members will now be offered the chance to change to a “defined contributions scheme” where pension payouts will be related to the amount paid in rather than a fixed amount relating to an employees salary at the end of their career.
The move was condemned of the National Union of Journalists.
Paul Holleran NUJ Scottish secretary, said: “This announcement on a Friday afternoon has left many of our members shell-shocked. (Hehehehe, much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the wine bars that evening i’ll bet .) ed.
“The scrapping of the final salary scheme is the latest in a long line of attacks on staff at TMG and serious questions need to be asked, and answered about the capability of the senior Trinity directors.”
TMG issued a statement this morning: “Closing these schemes to future accrual would help limit the increase in liabilities in the defined benefit pension schemes and help the group to fulfil its commitment to eliminate the current deficit.”
Express Newspapers’ plan to close its final salary pension scheme to existing members emerged last October with that publisher similarly claming that the scheme was proving too costly to maintain.
At least those hard-core marxists of the NUJ are starting to get a taste of what it means to live in the real world.
The problem with antifascists is that they never had a real job, actually many have never worked a single day in their lives.
Hopefully more and more people will refuse to buy newspapers until they are bankrupted one by one and finally stop poisoning peoples mind’ with their lies and politically correct nonsense.
GIUSEPPE DE SANTIS
