Former miner Dave Drury, who started work at Welbeck Colliery, in Mansfield, when he was 16, watched the budget at his pub the Black Market.<\/p>\n
“We’ve finally got justice”, he said.<\/p>\n
“Every penny in that scheme is from our wages and employer contributions.<\/p>\n
“It’s a victory that we’ve got it returned but we are still bitter.”<\/p>\n
Speaking of the members who have died, he added: “It’s sad that they never got to receive pensions that they deserved.”<\/p>\n
Mansfield’s Labour MP Steve Yemm has campaigned on the issue since his election last year.<\/p>\n
“This is so important to me, my family worked in the industry and I absolutely understand when the former mineworkers say they want justice in their pensions,” he said.<\/p>\n
“For me it could never come soon enough. They paid into this scheme year after year doing one of the hardest jobs you could imagine. <\/p>\n
“It’ll mean a 50% increase into their pension, and I believe it will be backdated for a year. The trustees will be looking to get that to them as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former miner Dave Drury, who started work at Welbeck Colliery, in Mansfield, when he was 16, watched the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":{"0":"post-156092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}