Labor Lines: Pension Stripping
NY State Senator Tony Avella and Manhattan Attorney Ed Stone discuss grave concerns over a new corporate scam to strip pensioneers of their rights and protections by selling off their pension obligatins to insurance companies robbing retirees of recourse to the US Pension Guarantee Corporation in the event of insolvency and of access to the Federal Courts. Senator Avella has a fix for this problem. Then Chris Perez speaks with Joseph Dorismond an organizer with the RWDSU about organizing car wash workers, and why this has been quite sucessful. Click here to download and listen to the show!
