The United Food and Commercial Workers Union is a heavyweight on the labor scene. It pays its president $350,000 a year. It’s holding its next executive board meeting in February at a swanky beachfront resort in Hollywood, Florida. And it just doled out nearly $8 million to influence the last election and lobby Washington.
But when it comes to standing by the obligation unions made to provide pensions to retirees, UFCW pleaded poverty in persuading Congress to let chronically underfunded union pension plans cut the benefits of workers, including those already retired.
“Declining participation and factors like the Great Recession have created a new reality for Taft-Hartley multiemployer plans wherein many of them are substantially underfunded,” departing UFCW President Joseph T. Hansen wrote to the House Education and the Workforce Committee in a letter this month.
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AND Social Security is next... BUT NONE of the welfare payments will be reduced.
ReplyDeleteThen they will cut out the police union fund and they will walk away and then anarchy will kick in.
ReplyDeleteOh it will get worse..since this money is really already gone....pofff...
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteAND Social Security is next... BUT NONE of the welfare payments will be reduced.
December 30, 2014 at 11:45 AM
Exactly!!
They won't touch welfare or EBT Food Stamps, but go F.K with our pensions.
Proves how ignorant the Democrats are.