To: The Pennsylvania State House, The Pennsylvania State Senate, and Governor Tom Wolf
Stop the attacks on Pennsylvania workers' pensions
Governor Corbett and Republican members of the Pennsylvania legislature are pushing changes in the state pension system that will undermine retirement security for cops, firefighters, teachers, nurses and nearly all other public employees.
Public workers, who have never missed a single payment to their pensions, will be forced to put their retirement savings into risky Wall Street 401K-type pension plans because politicians failed in their responsibility to make the necessary and required employer payments to their pension funds.
Making workers pay for the mistakes of others while, at the same time, slashing corporate taxes, refusing to tax Marcellus Shale or close corporate tax loopholes is absolutely unacceptable public policy.
Sign our petition and send the message to the Governor and his legislative allies that retirement security for public workers is more important than corporate profits.
Public workers, who have never missed a single payment to their pensions, will be forced to put their retirement savings into risky Wall Street 401K-type pension plans because politicians failed in their responsibility to make the necessary and required employer payments to their pension funds.
Making workers pay for the mistakes of others while, at the same time, slashing corporate taxes, refusing to tax Marcellus Shale or close corporate tax loopholes is absolutely unacceptable public policy.
Sign our petition and send the message to the Governor and his legislative allies that retirement security for public workers is more important than corporate profits.
Why is this important?
We believe switching public workers from a defined benefit plan to a defined contribution plan undermines retirement security and means our state will eventually end up retiring workers into poverty.
Trying to fix greater budgetary issues on the backs of workers who did nothing to create the problems is unjust. All Pennsylvanians will be affected by this as local economies suffer when the personal spending of retirees is diminished and tax payers will be harmed as more retirees will need various types of public assistance to support themselves in retirement.
We are better than this.
Trying to fix greater budgetary issues on the backs of workers who did nothing to create the problems is unjust. All Pennsylvanians will be affected by this as local economies suffer when the personal spending of retirees is diminished and tax payers will be harmed as more retirees will need various types of public assistance to support themselves in retirement.
We are better than this.