If you even had been keeping up with what has been going on with the Pensions the last 8 years you would have seen that we have been fighting to save them from cuts and you would not be making such uninformed and asinine replies. Even when the CBO approved the costs of the BLA, they knew that not doing so would cost the economy over $130B a year, and a $86B fix was the cheapest way to avoid it too. The Government screwed up CSPF in 1983 when they took control of it away from the IBT and President Reagan handed it over to 4 Wall St. investment funds and when it crashed in 2007, we lost BILLIONS of retirement, but YET, the TAXPAYER bailed Wall St out and was not made to pay for OUR loses for our Pension Fund that was devastated. There were no checks and balances or oversight committees set up to protect it in 1983. The hearings the RETIREES went to in Washington were to testify to these facts. The Government agreed and STOPPED all Retirees at CSPF from getting a cut and was told by Congress to get it fixed. It has been a LONG 8 years battle, over 11,000 Retirees have passed away not knowing if the spouses would get to keep their share of it. Many who worked hard to fight for it, have died and many others carried on the battle to get it passed. Every time it came close to being kept in the bill the GOP took it out or would not hear it. We finally got it all the way and the Butch Lewis Act 2021 (EPPRA) was passed and ALL Retirees, present and future have their pensions secured WITHOUT any cuts to your earned benefit. THIS is what happens when Teamsters fight for each other! And....NOT ONE GOP SENATOR VOTED TO SAVE YOUR PENSIONS!
