Month: July 2016
Heard Off the Street: PPG passing on pensions
The Pittsburgh-based paint and coatings maker announced Monday that it will unload $1.6 billion in pension obligations it owes to about 13,400 current U.S. salaried and non-union hourly retirees by purchasing group annuity contracts from Massachusetts Mutual Life and MetLife.
Teamsters are still looking at pennies on the dollar in retirement
Teamsters in Minnesota and across the country may believe they caught a break when the U.S. Treasury Department stopped cuts in their retirement pay. But the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is now saying the government is on track to run out of money to prop up the troubled Teamsters Central States Pension Fund in […]
