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Billionaires influence judges to approve wage theft from teachers | Reclaim Reform

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Billionaires influence judges to approve wage theft from teachers

Judges are being openly influenced by major corporations and their billionaire owners to decide against constitutional protections. Openly influencing. Not secret plots and conspiracies. These are in-your-face influence events.
Public pension fund theft from both active and retired teachers is in the courts and in the news. Other public employees are suffering identical abuse.
Koch Brothers and judges
These judges will decide the financial fates of hundreds of thousands of people; these decisions involve billions of dollars. Present mandated pension “contributions” by active teachers and past earned wages, deferred compensation, by retired teachers are being attacked by attempting to influence the judiciary.
“As state courts across the nation prepare to referee numerous public pension reform disputes, a gaggle of interested parties — from major corporations to the Koch brothers — will next week sponsor an expenses-paid conference on public pension reform for judges who may decide the cases’ fates.” Yes, all expenses paid luxury hotel accommodations and more are being paid for by the Koch Brothers’ organizations, Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Dow Chemical, Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Conoco Phillips, and other major corporations.
Read Chris Young’s full Huffington Post account HERE.
Where and when? The Francis Marion Hotel in Charlotte, SC from April 27 -29, 2014.
What will be taught to these judges at this symposium? Avert the constitutional and legal contractual protections of public employees who have had their pension funds systematically Billionaires influence judges to approve wage theft from teachers | Reclaim Reform: