Category: Retirement Security
- 04/26/11 Telling the Whole Story About Public Employee Pension Funds Pew Center on the States portrays the public pension system as "broken," but the facts don't back that up.
- 03/16/11 Maine’s Governor Won’t Take His Own Medicine Gov. LePage has exempted himself from a plan to increase pension contributions from public service workers.
- 03/14/11 Maryland AFSCME Members to Rally in Annapolis Today Protest targets proposed budget cuts to public services and education, changes to retirement security and health care benefits.
- 03/11/11 Republicans Take Aim at Social Security Republican legislators in both the U.S. House and Senate have now started moving toward cutting Social Security.
- 03/09/11 Origins of the So-Called Pension Crisis Noted economist Dean Baker has written what could be best described as the definitive explanation of the state of public sector pension plans.
- 02/20/11 On, Wisconsin! Amazing, inspiring video from University of Wisconsin student Matt Wisniewski features three days of footage (Feb 15-17) from the Madison, WI protest against the SB11 budget repair bill.
- 02/16/11 Gagging Workers Is Un-American As the world watched the people of Egypt take to the streets in an effort to exercise their rights and have their voices heard, here at home in the USA, plans are being put into place to silence workers, lower their wages, cut their benefits [...]
- 02/14/11 Video: Shaking the Wisconsin State House On Valentine's Day, University of Wisconsin-Madison students filled the Wisconsin Capitol building to protest proposals by Republican Gov. Scott Walker that would reduce funding for higher education and decimate collective bargaining rights.
- 02/14/11 Wisconsin AFL-CIO Ads Against Attacks on Worker Rights The Wisconsin AFL-CIO launched an advertising campaign over the weekend to alert the public to the radical plan by Republican Gov. Scott Walker to strip almost all collective bargaining rights from state and local public employees.
- 02/09/11 O'Reilly Spreads Lies About Public Employee Pensions FACT: The average annual pension of an AFSCME retiree is $19,000. As Pres. Gerald W. McEntee wrote in USA Today, the real problems facing cities and states were caused by Wall Street, not public workers.
