The Attack on Pensions

Download or read book The Attack on Pensions written by Frank Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN LABOR TODAY SPECIAL REPORTTHE ATTACK ON PENSIONSThe history of pensions and the struggle to defend guaranteed income after retirement.We live in a country with private ownership of the means of production. Social Security is the only publicly guaranteed pension system in the United States. It must be defended by the working class and the trade unions. The struggle to defend and expand Social Security needs to be first on the workers 'agenda. As Joe Glazier said: "What do you do when you are too old to work and too young to die?" The demand for the 8-hour day was so that workers could have leisure time for "what they will." What good is leisure time in old age without sufficient guaranteed income?http://www.labortoday.us/