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Raise Your Voice for Your Pension
 Pension Fight Takes to Airwaves
Add your voice to the effort to save our pensions!
New hard-hitting radio ads are airing across the state. These spots, sponsored by California Families Against Privatizing Retirement, a coalition of labor and community groups including AFSCME, highlight the devastating effect the governor’s pension initiative will have on secure retirements for police, firefighters, teachers and all public employees – including LA City employees like you. Worse yet, as the ads explain, the governor’s scheme will eliminate death and disability benefits for all public employees – that’s particularly outrageous for the workers who put their lives on the line for all of us – police officers and firefighters and their surviving families.
After hearing the ads, listeners are calling the governor to demanding he stop the efforts to take away our secure retirements. Tell the Governor and Assemblyman Richman that California’s public servants deserve security. Let them know you’re angry at their attempts to eliminate death and disability benefits for police officers and firefighters.
And then tell your family and friends to demand Schwarzenegger and Richman drop their cruel and unfair initiative.
| Sample Letter for Campaign |
Subject: Keep Your Hands Off Our Pensions
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
I oppose the proposed plan to change public employee pensions from a fixed benefit plan to a fixed contribution plan.
Changing pensions to a 401(k) program will shift millions of dollars away from retirement funds to Wall Street Fund Managers. Employees could lose their entire retirement from risky investments and bad advice.
The gamble doesn't stop there. According to CalPERS and CalSTRS the measure will increase state costs for retirement by 7.6 billion over the next ten years. And local governments like Los Angeles will have to pay steep start-up costs, too, leaving their budgets gutted.
Sincerely,
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