Pensions
The corporate choice—create real value or grand fortunes
June 22, 2017If downsizings and mergers don’t do the trick, CEOs can always just slash worker pensions and/or cut budgets for R&D and put the resulting “savings” into dividends and “buybacks,” two slick corporate maneuvers that jack up...
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Van Jones at People’s Summit: Progressives must engage Trump voters
June 10, 2017“I may not like how you voted but you are my brother and I don’t want you to die. By sticking together all of us will win.”
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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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