Tell Congress to just say “no” to pension cuts!

We need your immediate help to stop Congress from cutting retirees’ hard-earned pension benefits. With only days left in the lame-duck session, Congress is considering provisions that would allow pension plan trustees to cut the hard-earned pension benefits of retirees – as a purported solution to shoring up certain financially-troubled multiemployer plans. Such an unprecedented measure would be devastating to hundreds of thousands of retirees and widows who count on these pensions to survive.  

• Send a letter to your Senators, urging them to put retiree interests before those of Wall Street. Tell them to strip the retiree pension cuts from the omnibus spending bill and send the bill back to the House.
• Write a letter to Congress, urging them to reject provisions in the omnibus spending bill that would cut retiree pensions.
• Use our calculator to find out how much your multiemployer pension benefits would be cut if the provisions included in the omnibus bill become law.
• Read a summary of the retiree pension cutback provisions in the omnibus spending bill
• Read our fact sheet, the Facts about Multiemployer Pension Plan Funding.
• Read the letter we sent Congress opposing provisions that would cut retiree benefits in multiemployer pension plans.
• In the news

– National Journal: Labor Unions Accuse Congress of Sneak Attack on Pensions in Lame Duck
– CBS 19 Action News: Bill Could Slash Pensions Across America
– Los Angeles Times: The lame-duck Congress plots to undermine retiree pensions
– The Washington Post: Congress could soon allow pension plans to cut benefits for current retirees