LOCAL government workers warned strike action could be on the way at a pensions protest rally.
About a dozen workers ranging from teaching assistants to refuse collectors staged the rally in St Helen's Square in York yesterday.
Possible action has been on the cards for nearly a year, due partly to moves to raise the retirement age for some public sector workers.
Changes would mean many will have to work past the age of 60, something that was not mentioned in local authority contracts at the start of employment.
Unions want their members to be offered the same deal as colleagues working in other areas of the public sector.
Ben Drake, of the pulbic service union Unison, said: "Our members are very angry about it because they have been paying in to their pension schemes for many, many years on the understanding they would be able to retire at 60 and to change the rules now is completely unfair.
Updated: 09:32 Thursday, March 02, 2006
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