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Quality of Life in Old Age ? At the time of going to press, 1,200 members of Amicus/Unite employed at Grangemouth oil refinery have just ended a 48 hours strike the first strike in a British oil refinery since 1935. The strike is over proposed changes to the Final Salary Pension scheme . It is the latest in a long line of protests across Europe against the end of schemes that linked pensions to wages. This general struggle for pension rights is in some ways an extension of the wage struggle. It is a struggle for deferred wages. But it is also about relations between generations - how we vi...