The Pension Rights Center works with grassroots activists around the country to stop unfair pension practices and advocate for adequate benefits.
Many of these activists are members of the Coalition for Retirement Security, an all-volunteer organization that the Center helped start in 1996. CRS member groups have implemented a variety of successful strategies to halt cash balance conversions and other cutbacks in pension benefits, and to secure cost of living adjustments in their pensions.
The Center also works with the National Retirees Legislative Network, formed by CRS member groups in 2001 to lobby for legislation to curb retiree health insurance cutbacks and other retiree concerns.
In 2004, CRS and NRLN, their member groups, and other activists from around the country joined together to form the Ad Hoc Coalition to Restore Retirement Security to making “broken retirement promises” a major national issue.
The Center also provides help to smaller grassroots groups. For example, we helped Enron and MCI/WorldCom employees organize when they lost their 401(k) savings as the result of the collapse of their companies. Similarly we assisted Dresser-Rand employees, when Halliburton unfairly denied them their expected early retirement pensions. We also joined with CWA-IUE to launch a website to help salaried Verizon employees affected by their pension freeze. Many of these employees have shared their stories in the Employee Voices section of our web site.
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