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What's Hot Archive

• Three myths about state and local government pension plans.Body
  
• Mutual Funds and Overpaid CEOs
  Individual investors lose when mutual funds consistently vote in favor of runaway executive pay packages.
• Ask AFSCME
  
• AFSCME Lauds House Committee Passage of “Say-On-Pay” Legislation
  
• New Report: Compensation Accomplices -- Mutual Funds and the Overpaid American CEO
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• March 31 Letter to AIG Trustees to Vote No against Compensation Committee
  Letter from AFSCME, CRPTF and AFL-CIO to AIG Credit Facility Trustees urging withhold votes from Compensation Committee (153k PDF)
• AFSCME Employees Pension Plan Announces 2009 Shareholder Proposals
  In the Wake of Financial Crisis, Executive Pay, Board Reform, Corporate Accountability Top Pension Plan Agenda
• Q & A: Social Security's Government Pension Offset (for members in jobs not covered by Social Security)
  
• Q & A: Social Security's Windfall Elimination Provision (for members in jobs not covered by Social Security)
  
• Investor Education for Working Families
  The Investor Education program provides free, self-paced online classes and resource materials to help you solidify your personal investing skills.
• DC – Protect Retiree Benefits
  
• Investor Education Initiative Launched
  
• 2008 AFSCME State Legislative Agenda
  
• AFSCME Urges “Vote No” for ACS Compensation Committee Members
  Committee’s judgment on pay and backdated stock options labeled excessive
• AFSCME Leads Shareholder Reform Push at Hewlett-Packard
  
• AFSCME Announces 2007 Shareholder Proposals
  27 proposals focus on executive pay, board reform, corporate accountability
• McEntee Hails Resignation of Home Depot Chief, Calls For Greater CEO Accountability
  
• The Pension Protection Act of 2006
  
• Pensions: Gambling Our Futures (1997)
  
• July/August 2003
  
• March/April 2006
  
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  State Workers Rally for Pension Benefits in New Jersey
  AFSCME members representing four councils created a sea of green T-shirts among 6,000 state workers who rallied recently in front of the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton. They were calling on legislators to pass Gov. Jon Corzine's (D) $31-billion budget plan. The budget would put $1.3 billion into the state's public employee pension fund after nearly a decade of neglecting its pension obligation.

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