Convention Resolution
Resolution 13: Retirement Income Security for All
… have any retirement savings whatsoever. The AFL-CIO will continue to press for measures that ensure adequate retirement benefits for every worker in America. Economic security in retirement must be a shared responsibility of employers, … of a disability, and to family members when a working parent dies. Our greatest concern about Social Security is that its benefits are too low. At the beginning of this year, the average retirement check was about $1,614 a month, or $19,370 … for 90% of their income. We must continue to shift the public conversation about Social Security away from how we can cut benefits to how we can expand them, as the labor movement has been instrumental in doing over the past decade. Social …