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LOOKING AFTER WORKERS, OR THEIR OWN MANAGEMENT? Almost half of top unions have underfunded pension ?

By Glenn Reynolds

LOOKING AFTER WORKERS, OR THEIR OWN MANAGEMENT? Almost half of top unions have underfunded pension plans. “Eight of the largest unions have underfunded plans, according to the most recent 5500 reports, including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the Laborers International Union of Northern America, the International Association of Machinists, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, the International Union of Operating Engineers, and the National Plumbers Union. The average union pension has resources to cover only 62 percent of what is owed to participants, according to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC). Less than one in every 160 workers is covered by a union pension with required assets.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 08, 2009 (boomark / email).