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Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander has signalled that ministers will stick to their guns over controversial public-sector pension reforms despite threats of mass strike action.<\/p>\n

Mr Alexander said that millions of workers would have to pay more in contributions and work for longer if the value of their retirement benefits was to be maintained into the future.<\/p>\n

His comments were condemned by union leaders as the \u201clast straw\u201d, setting the stage for a wave of strikes this autumn on a scale not seen since the general strike of 1926.<\/p>\n

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls urged unions not to fall into the Government\u2019s \u201ctrap\u201d \u2013 accusing ministers of deliberately provoking a confrontation so they could blame them for the failing economy.<\/p>\n

However, union leaders warned that they could not sit back in the face of such an attack on their members by the Government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the final straw,\u201d Unison general secretary Dave Prentis told Sky News\u2019s Murnaghan programme.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving attacked their jobs and now to take away their pensions in the way this Government is doing, it leaves them no alternative to say we\u2019re going to have to take a stand.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to negotiate all the way through. But if we\u2019re going to be treated with disdain in the way that we are being now, then we will move to an industrial action ballot.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it will be the biggest action since 1926 because up to 10 million people will be involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

His warning was echoed by Mark Serwotka, the general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) representing civil servants, whose members have already voted to join teachers in a day of action on June 30.<\/p>\n

Source: Press Association<\/p>\n

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