Pensioners gather outside the Scottish Parliament today
PENSIONERS vowed to fight for the “workers of the future” today as they descended on the Scottish Parliament to demand dignity in retirement.
The Unison and Unite unions joined trades councils and the Scottish Pensioners Convention to lobby MSPs against austerity in the run-up to the United Nations International Day of Older Persons, which will be marked on Monday.
The demonstration, mainly attended by women, heard calls for the reversal of losses suffered by retired people due to the increase in the female state pension age.
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