Gov. Jerry Brown Details Unacceptable Assault on Current and Future Public Employees
Contact: Steven Maviglio, (916) 697-8340, pensionfacts@gmail.com
Here is a statement from Californians for Retirement Security, a coalition representing more than 1.5 million public employees and retirees, regarding the details from the governor’s pension proposals released today:
“Governor Brown’s pension proposals amount to an unprecedented and unacceptable assault on current and future California teachers, firefighters, peace officers, school employees, and other public employees. They abrogate the very collective bargaining laws he first enacted, attempt to violate Constitutional rights of current workers, severely harm middle-class and low-wage workers and will force workers in back-breaking manual labor jobs to work 30 to 40 years, until age 67, only to receive 50 percent less in stable defined benefits.
Nonpartisan analyses already have found these sloppy proposals won't yield the savings promised and are full of major legal and constitutional minefields. Research from the University of California, Berkeley