Working Life

We’ve been following the trail of the attack on the pension system on a regular basis here. Down there, inside the Beltway, there’s been a fight brewing of how to “reform” the pension system, with two competing bills duking it out: A House version and a Senate version. From where I sit, neither is great […]

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You want an obscene contrast between the absolute flogging American workers are getting versus how big corporations are getting off? Compare the scandalous termination of the pension plans for 134,000 United Airlines workers, on the one hand, to the passage of the bankruptcy bill (with Democratic Party support), on the other hand. On the one […]

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I’m all behind the fight to keep Wall Street’s hands of Social Security but there’s a more silent attack on retirement: the destruction of the private pension system. Though I’ve written about this before, I was reminded of the problem today after reading Mary Williams Walsh’s piece in The New York Times on the government’s […]

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