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On Monday, Representative Bob Filner and President of AFSCME Local 127 Joan Raymond, a City of San Diego sanitation driver reacted to today’s ruling from the state Public Employment Relations Board, which said the City of San Diego and San…
California Public Employee Relations Board: City Pension Reform Initiative Amounts To Unfair Labor Practice
Are pensions the equivalent of buggy whips and 8-track cassettes; have they become obsolete? No but we strayed from fundamentals and now we need to return. Plans that stuck to fundamentals are on solid footing today. They provide the example…
On Monday, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders will be in Washington, DC to tout his ballot measure that will leave city workers without Social Security or any other retirement safety net.
The National Public Pension Coalition today lauded a decision by Maricopa County Superior Court judge in Arizona who ruled that a law signed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer changing the contribution that state employees make to their pension funds is…
Minnesota’s systems are well-managed and are reasonably funded under the circumstances.
Many governments are looking to balance budgets or contain costs, and most at least glancing look at their pensions.
Alaska’s public employees could be getting nearer to having the option for a traditional pension plan, instead of the 401(k)-style plan new employees were controversially forced into starting in 2006.
So why does Gov. Cuomo’s plan vilify middle class retirement security?
In the wake of numerous federal and state proposals to diminish public pension systems, state leaders and national experts gathered today at the National Press Club to make the case for the effectiveness of defined benefit pension plans.
Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, the Pravda of the 1 percent, is at it again, continuing its push to gut the retirement security of millions of middle class workers across the country while enriching the Wall Street moneymen who just…
For many Americans, the dream of a worry-free retirement remains elusive. NBC’s Anne Thompson explains why.