Retired Teamsters from the Midwest and the Northeast met with representatives of Senator Bernie Sanders’ staff as well as other Congressional Reps recently to review efforts in support of the Keep Our Pension Promises Act (KOPPA). In this video, some of these grassroots fighters, representative of our pension protection movement, offer their insight and inspiration. Watch it and join the movement to protect pensions for all American workers. 

The Central States Pension Fund Financial Report (4^th Quarter 2016) shows that the fund ended 2016 with $15.3 billion in assets, down from $16.1 billion a year earlier. Due to healthy returns on bonds and in the stock market, this was not as bad as 2015 but still shows the fund headed steadily downward.

Over the past three years, the Teamster pension protection movement has done a tremendous job: this grassroots movement stopped the Central States from slashing pensions, caused an investigation of the fund, and built political support far and wide. But can we win real pension protection? We think we can.