Fair Pay, Fair Pensions campaign

Visit our 30 November page for FDA members' photographs and testimonies from the Day of Action

Check the FDA pensions calculator

Watch the FDA industrial action ballot film

Visit the President's Fair Pay, Fair Pensions forum

A total of 81% of FDA members who voted in the ballot to support industrial action in the current dispute over the Government's plans to reform public sector pension arrangements voted 'Yes'. The ballot turnout was 54%.

The Executive Committee agreed, as the first step, to call those FDA members who were balloted, to take strike action on 30 November 2011 in support of the TUC's Day of Action on pensions.

FDA members joined nearly three million other public sector workers, from more than 20 public sector unions, in taking action on this day.

The Executive Committee recognised that, for many members, this was a difficult decision and not one that was taken lightly. This was the first time in the FDA's history that members were called out in support of a national strike. This was also the case for a number of the other unions supporting the Day of Action.

We have called on the Government to reconsider its proposals in the wake of the reaction to them from so many committed public servants.