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Given the rich history of labor’s association with the creation of
Social Security, you gotta wonder what union leaders think about
President Bush’s privatization plan…perhaps they’re OK with it, given
the relative security of their workers’ pension plans?
Not so much…
John Sweeney, head of the AFL-CIO, recently said, “America’s working
families are being squeezed as never before. Too many people are losing
good jobs, health insurance, pensions and now they face the prospect of
losing the one thing that has been a guarantee for many generations –
Social Security. The president’s plan to privatize Social Security will
take trillions of dollars out of the Social Security trust funds,
further balloon our nation’s deficit, and jeopardize the retirement
security of working families.”
John Sweeney, head of the AFL-CIO, recently said, “America’s working
families are being squeezed as never before. Too many people are losing
good jobs, health insurance, pensions and now they face the prospect of
losing the one thing that has been a guarantee for many generations –
Social Security. The president’s plan to privatize Social Security will
take trillions of dollars out of the Social Security trust funds,
further balloon our nation’s deficit, and jeopardize the retirement
security of working families.”
standup.JPG
Given the rich history of labor’s association with the creation of
Social Security, you gotta wonder what union leaders think about
President Bush’s privatization plan…perhaps they’re OK with it, given
the relative security of their workers’ pension plans?
Not so much…
John Sweeney, head of the AFL-CIO, recently said, “America’s working
families are being squeezed as never before. Too many people are losing
good jobs, health insurance, pensions and now they face the prospect of
losing the one thing that has been a guarantee for many generations –
Social Security. The president’s plan to privatize Social Security will
take trillions of dollars out of the Social Security trust funds,
further balloon our nation’s deficit, and jeopardize the retirement
security of working families.”
John Sweeney, head of the AFL-CIO, recently said, “America’s working
families are being squeezed as never before. Too many people are losing
good jobs, health insurance, pensions and now they face the prospect of
losing the one thing that has been a guarantee for many generations –
Social Security. The president’s plan to privatize Social Security will
take trillions of dollars out of the Social Security trust funds,
further balloon our nation’s deficit, and jeopardize the retirement
security of working families.”