Blame Pro-Union Monopoly Policies For Underfunded Pensions
In an op-ed recently published by CNS News, I discuss pension shortfalls that have already hit the pocketbooks of tens of thousands of unionized retirees across the country, and will surely be faced by millions of additional workers over the next two decades:
Hundreds of the roughly 1,400 multiemployer pension plans across the country are now in deep trouble primarily for one reason: The contributions going into these funds, in amounts determined through union monopoly bargaining, were never sufficient to pay for the pensions that union bosses and their agents told workers they would provide.
Emblematic of the multiemployer pension crisis is the Teamsters 400,000-participant Central State Pension Fund. It is funded at a level of 28 percent to 38 percent, depending on the assumption you make about future investment performance, and is headed towards insolvency in 2025.