One can look around the world and see where the trends are going. I recall in the earlier comment that observation was made.
My observation is that the private sector approaches this issue of compensation as a whole. It is about salaries. It's about performance pay. It's about benefits. It's about pension. And as a collective, it needs to be competitive. So to come back and say that by taking the issue of pensions and neglecting the larger piece of competitive compensation...is probably not, I'd suggest, the way the contractor would approach this.