Pensions – Page 23 – People's World

Study: Public employee pensions a bargain

October 25, 2011 By Dan Margolis

Public employee pension plans are actually far more cost effective than defined contribution, the 401k-style plans fashionable in the private sector.

Must pension funds prove losses before they can sue?

April 29, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Must public pension funds prove they lost money before they can sue as a class against the corporations involved? That's the problem the Supreme Court wrestled with, in a case that pitted a non-profit foundation against...

Court green lights union pension lawsuit vs. financier

February 4, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

BOSTON (PAI) - In one of the first cases affecting unions and their members to emerge from Wall Street's financial finagling, a federal appeals court in Boston gave the go-ahead to a class action suit by...

Cutting Social Security — where does your congressperson stand?

October 12, 2010 By Dean Baker

There is a pledge to protect Social Security that has already been endorsed by more then 100 members of Congress. Where does yours stand?

European unions set to march for “Robin Hood taxes”

September 14, 2010 By Scott Marshall

Next in the "rising tide of world labor protest" file comes the September 29 labor actions in Europe.