Pensions
White House budget trashes federal workers’ jobs
May 30, 2017"Gutting middle-class federal employees’ retirement security to make way for billionaire tax cuts is not how you make America great again.”
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Workers rally to back pension protection bill
May 12, 2017Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt. who also introduced the bill, said it could save the pensions of up to 10 million workers the multi-employer plans cover.
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Union presidents struggle with political strategies
March 14, 2017“There has ‘to be a new paradigm’ or 2018 will be 2016 all over again.”
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University of California workers demand fair wages, retirement plan
February 17, 2017The union charges that the UC administration has engaged in unfair labor practices, including failure to bargain in good faith, stalling talks, interfering in workers’ rights to participate in union activities, and threatening retaliation for participating...
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Illinois state workers win against Rauner’s cuts, temporarily
December 13, 2016The legal back-and-forth is part of the governor’s continuing effort to break Illinois' public employees' union.
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