Focus on Maritime Pensions Newsletter
September/November 2025
A message from the National Secretary, Darren Procter
RMT continue to campaign for improvements to occupational pensions in the Maritime sector Welcome to the latest edition of the Maritime Pensions newsletter, outlining your union’s work to promote pensions and life assurance as fundamental components within the workplace. Whilst pensions are viewed as a complex matter by many, it’s important that we initiate discussions in every workplace about pensions, retirement planning and life assurance. It is also important that the experienced individuals impress upon the younger generation the importance of being in a pension scheme and saving for retirement. This update will cover several areas and outline what we as a union are doing to ensure that we are actively campaigning for improvements to pensions whilst also recognising that the challenges for many of our members are to pay bills, put food on the table at a time of sustained increased cost of living. We are focusing our efforts within the Maritime sector on improved organising
and representative structures and this should not stop at industrial or health and safety, we want to have members actively involved and engaging on pensions so that you and your colleagues have more information, are provided with relevant contact details and have access to the appropriate information and documentation should you need to make amendments or changes etc.
It saddens me when I see individuals working, whilst clearly suffering as a consequence of not having saved into a pension and cannot afford to retire, we must work collectively to ensure that our members can retire in dignity following a lifetime of dedication within the maritime sector.
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