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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBernie Sanders Draws Union Support Pressing Pensions Issue
Senator Bernie Sanders held a news conference Thursday on a bill to restore pension guarantees for thousands of retired union workers.Credit Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/06/18/bernie-sanders-draws-union-support-pressing-pensions-issue/
5:35 PM ET By Eric Lichtblau
With union members chanting Bernie! Bernie behind him, Senator Bernie Sanders sought to burnish his populist credentials for president on Thursday as he introduced a bill to protect the pensions of millions of retirees from the threat of deep cuts.
Mr. Sanders railed against a spending bill approved by Congress last December and signed into law by President Obama that included a provision allowing certain multiemployer pension plans to make deep cuts in benefits to retirees to shore up their finances.
At a news conference in Washington, Mr. Sanders said the economic system was rigged against working-class retirees. With wealthy Americans given tax breaks and myriad financial perks, the very least that we can do is to keep our promises to people who worked and earned their pensions, he said.
We say loudly and clearly thats not what America is about! he shouted, jabbing his hand in the air. Enough is enough!
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Bernie Sanders Draws Union Support Pressing Pensions Issue (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Jun 2015
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Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)1. Kick for Bernie and his support of working people
WillyT
(72,631 posts)2. Huge K & R !!! - Thank You, Thank You, Thank You !!!
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)3. Good for Bernie.
About time Democrats took a firm stand with unions again.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)4. Feel the Bern, American workers!
KelleyKramer
(8,831 posts)5. Why would Obama sign on to that?
Obama signed a law screwing union workers on their retirement, wow.
I remember Obama's first White House chief of staff saying that unions were "fucking retards"
Makes a lot of sense now.
I guess the next thing he could do is join with Republican leaders in congress and pass a trade agreement that Really screws American workers.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)6. The presidential election is going to be about jobs
and any employment issue - pensions, training etc.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)7. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!
daleanime
(17,796 posts)8. K&R.....