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Missouri Pension Activists Protest "Right-to-Work"

January 13, 2017

Teamsters from the Missouri-Kansas City Committee to Protect Pensions rallied this week in Jefferson City, Missouri against "right-to-work" legislation.

The Fight to Protect Pensions in New York State

January 01, 2017

The New York Times today has a feature report on the fight to stop pension cuts in the Teamster Upstate New York Pension Fund, led by brother Mark Greene, a UPS Teamster in Local 294.

Pension Action Turns Back Composite Bill

December 12, 2016

Fast action by pension committees and our allies has beat-back a pension cut bill in Congress.

Pension Fight Continues

December 08, 2016

Over the past three years, Teamsters and their families built a grassroots campaign for pension justice. We organized in large numbers, we showed the country that Teamsters were facing an unfair deal, and we beat back proposed cuts to the Central States Pension Fund.

Don’t Let Congress Pull a Secret Deal - Stop the Pension Composite Bill

December 05, 2016

John Kline, the Minnesota congressman that snuck through the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act (MEPRA) as part of the omnibus spending bill in 2014, is at it again. MEPRA allowed Central States and other Funds in “critical status” to propose drastic cuts to earned benefits. 

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