This is the situation as it affects us:

• The interests of retired staff (and indeed of serving staff) are under constant threat from, among other things, the budget pressures weighing on our former employer, disregard of the regulatory procedures intended to protect us from arbitrary decisions, and the fact that, as former employees of an international organisation, we do not have access to national public-sector protection machinery.
• The regulations do not give retired staff the same level of representation as serving staff: two seats are reserved for them out of the 29 on the Staff Committee. That is better than in many other international organisations, but all the same…