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Legislative Alert

Letter to Senators in Support of a Bill to Guarantee Health and Compensation Benefits for 9/11 Responders and Survivors

… 9/11 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act (H.R. 1786, S. 928) which will guarantee critical health and compensation benefits to those sickened as a result of the 9/11 attacks. Fourteen years after the terrorist attacks on our country, tens …
Legislative Alert

Letter to Representatives Urging Support for a Bill to Guarantee Health and Compensation Benefits for 9/11 Responders and Survivors

… 9/11 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act (H.R. 1786, S. 928) which will guarantee critical health and compensation benefits to those sickened as a result of the 9/11 attacks. Fourteen years after the terrorist attacks on our country, tens …
Executive Council Statement

Protecting Social Security Disability Benefits for America's Workers

… For opponents of Social Security, every day is a good day to cut Americans’ earned retirement and disability benefits, and no justification is too small, irrelevant or outlandish. In the latest attack on Social Security, congressional … Republicans have taken aim at the Disability Insurance Program—using an artificial funding crisis to hold disability benefits hostage to their demands for “reform,” a term Americans understand is code for cutting benefits. The very first day of this Congress, House Republicans deployed a procedural maneuver prohibiting Congress from …
Legislative Alert

Letter to Representatives to Support Bill to Protect Social Security Benefits for Millions of Disabled Americans

… introduced by Representative Levin. H.R. 3621 is a common-sense Social Security proposal that will protect the earned benefits of millions of disabled Americans. Our Social Security system is fundamentally sound with an overall surplus of $2.8 trillion, enough to pay 100 percent of all earned benefits, both disability and retirement, through 2034. A shortfall in the disability fund, however, is projected near the … mean that 10.8 million disabled workers and their dependents who receive an average of $1,165 a month, would see their benefits cut to about $943. Allowing this to occur is both mean-spirited and unnecessary. Congress can put both of Social …
Legislative Alert

Letter to Senators in Support of Legislation to Protect Social Security Benefits for Millions of Disabled Americans

… Act of 2015,” introduced by Senator Wyden. S. 2090 is a common-sense Social Security proposal that will protect the earned benefits of millions of disabled Americans. Our Social Security system is fundamentally sound with an overall surplus of $2.8 trillion, enough to pay 100 percent of all earned benefits, both disability and retirement, through 2034. A shortfall in the disability fund, however, is projected near the … mean that 10.8 million disabled workers and their dependents who receive an average of $1,165 a month, would see their benefits cut to about $943. Allowing this to occur is both mean-spirited and unnecessary. Congress can put both of Social …
Legislative Alert

Letter Supporting Legislation That Would Repeal Harmful Elements From How Retirement Benefits Are Calculated

… strong support of HR 82, the Social Security Fairness Act, which repeals two harmful elements in how old age retirement benefits are calculated: The Government Pension Offset (GPO) as well as the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP). These two … At the same time, we urge you to oppose HR 5342, the Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2023, which would improve benefits for some WEP-affected people in the short term but would, in the future, expose about half a million new people to WEP; it would also do nothing to address the spouses and survivors whose benefits are reduced by the GPO provisions, either now or in the future. As you are likely aware, the WEP penalizes retirees …
Blog

The U.S. Should Not Reward Mauritania for Slavery Practices

… Mauritania receives preferential access to U.S. markets under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade benefits program. … AGOA is designed to spark economic development in Sub-Saharan African countries by expanding duty-free benefits and opening U.S. markets to African goods. As part of the program, AGOA beneficiaries are required to improve the … organizations worldwide, are calling on the U.S. Trade Representative to review Mauritania’s eligibility for AGOA trade benefits. Mauritania outlawed slavery in 1981, the world’s last country to do so. Yet in 2017, the practice of slavery is …
Convention Resolution

Resolution 45: Social Security Fairness Act

… frequently earn a pension outside of Social Security; and WHEREAS, many public safety employees earn Social Security benefits from extra jobs during their careers as well as from other employment after their public safety career is over; and WHEREAS, the Social Security benefits they have earned are discounted due to their retirement earnings; and WHEREAS, survivor benefits are also reduced to public safety retirees to the extent that most will receive nothing should they survive …
Blog

President of Alliance for Retired Americans Tells Senate Committee Social Security Must Be Expanded

… Committee hearing focused on expanding Social Security for all beneficiaries. Entitled “Saving Social Security: Expanding Benefits and Demanding the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share or Cutting Benefits and Increasing Retirement Anxiety,” the hearing laid out the case for increasing benefits as millions of seniors struggle to make ends meet. Watch the video of the hearing . … The testimony came on the same …
Blog

Service + Solidarity Spotlight: IBEW Members Volunteer Labor of Love for Crisis Center in Missouri

Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story.