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The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans

For Union Organizers and Employees
  • ISBN-13: 9781583679340
  • Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS
  • By James W Russell
  • Price: AUD $193.00
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  • Local release date: 22/11/2021
  • Format: Hardback (210.00mm X 140.00mm) 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Personal finance [VSB]
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A helpful how-to for workers navigating their retirement and pension options, from the labor organizer's perspective Researching retirement plans should not take the rest of your life, even if deciphering the relevant paperwork seems to have become a full-time job. Deliberately elaborate legalese is obscuring the efforts of financial elites to seize control of workers' collective retirement savings--and The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans is here to translate. Neoliberal retirement reforms have escalated elites' efforts to replace guaranteed workplace retirement plans with weak 401(k)-like savings accounts and risky stock market investment schemes. The result is arguably the largest source of labor value expropriation over the last four decades. In light of all this, what do workers need to know as they assess their future prospects--especially in terms of the security their retirement plans may or may not bring? What should union activists keep in mind as they push for the national and workplace reforms needed to produce greater retirement security? This nuts-and-bolts book provides a much-needed demystification of the retirement system. Even more than that The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans enables us to take charge of our own personal futures, as a first step towards taking back what belongs to us all.
James W. Russell is Affiliate Scholar of Public Policy at Portland State University and University Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is the author of nine books, including Social Insecurity: 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis and Double Standard: Social Policy in Europe and the United States. He led efforts to replace a 401(k)-like plan with a more secure, traditional pension plan as part of one of the first employee movements to successfully challenge the dominant trend.
A critical resource for labor activists, who are defending retirement security both at the bargaining table and in the legislative/political arena.--Steve Early, former International Union Representative, Communications Workers of America, and author of Save Our Unions
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