Lecturers at Croydon College will be on Strike on Thursday 10 May to demonstrate our opposition to the Government’s theft of £2.8 Billion from public sector pensions. We will be joining hundreds of thousands of other workers in national strike action against pension cuts. At Croydon College we have some very specific reasons for joining the action on 10 May • The increased Pension contribution in our April pay packet is only the first year’s hit. There will be two further • increases to add to it next year and the year after of roughly the same amount.

• Members unable to afford to join the pension scheme at the moment are seeing their chances of doing so move further out • of reach. Not having a pension could mean real poverty in old age.

• Croydon Governors have decided not to pay us the AOC recommended pay award this year • Teaching staff at the college due a pay increment in September 2011 have still not received it • Over 100 jobs have been lost at the College in the last 18 months, and student funding is being cut back year on year UCU members at the college see the pensions strike as part and parcel of a bigger fight that needs to be built against the Government's attacks on the Welfare State. We want to see a future for the people of Croydon, not more job losses, pension cuts and education cuts.

Please come and join us in the square outside the main entrance to the College on College Road, Croydon, near East Croydon Station from 8.00 to 10.00 on Thursday 10 May Based on information supplied by Margot Hill UCU Branch Sec.