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CWA:IBM Assaults Employees' Retirement Security

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Following is a statement by CWA President Larry Cohen on IBM's plan to freeze employee pensions:

The announcement by IBM Corp. that it is freezing the pensions of some 120,000 employees is outrageous, even by the "Gilded Age" standard of today's corporate executives.

Switch to Medicare-like System could be Remedy for Health Care

News
January 5, 2006
Letter from Al Mumm, President of CWA Local 7290 to the Omaha World-Herald Public Pulse regarding the article by Paul Krugman of the New York Times "Switch to Medicare-like System could be Remedy for Health Care" in the January 3rd edition of the Op-Ed page