While Governor Jindal has been pushing to increase the contribution rates and minimum retirement age for state employees, an article in The Advocate reveals that under Jindal’s same pension proposal, he would exempt himself and elected officials from such changes.
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National Public Pension Coalition Calls on Elected Leaders to Make Wall St. Insiders & Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share, Not Team Up With Them to Slash the Retirement Security of Teachers, Cops, & Firefighters
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In states across the country, there have been an unprecedented number of proposals by Governors and state legislatures to completely undermine the retirement security of millions of middle class workers who rely on the public pension system.
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As was expected, you may have seen yesterday that several Wall Street-aligned groups supporting the Governor’s 40% pension-cutting plan attempted to distort the facts in order to protect their one percent agenda and their billions in corporate tax breaks and …
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Throughout New York state this week, activists posing as Wall Street tycoons will be visiting the offices of Democratic County Executives to thank them for endorsing Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan to slash the public pensions of teachers, nurses and firefighters …
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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 …
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