...Just Like We Want to Protect and Preserve Pensions
Pensions matter to all of us. Whether we are members of CalPERS, which many AEU members are, or whether we are solely earning a CSEA pension. Either way, it is important that we protect our retirements as a defined benefit. AEU supports CSEA President Michael Bilbrey’s CalPERS campaign statement that pensions need to be protected.
“We need to protect and promote our defined benefit pensions,” Bilbrey says on his campaign website.
As a CSEA leader and a current member of the CalPERS Board, Mr. Bilbrey supports the same pension values held by AEU. This is what CalPERS members deserve, and it is what AEU members deserve for their own pension. Protecting retirement security is a fundamental tenant of organized labor and collective bargaining.
“We have not done enough to provide the public with facts to help counter the lies and misconceptions that are spread by anti-worker politicians and the media,” Bilbrey also says on his campaign website.
Pension costs are often distorted and exploited as a scapegoat to further other agendas. It’s imperative that union leaders correct inaccurate information and defend their retirement benefits. AEU knows that Michael Bilbrey will do this for CSEA members.
AEU supports leaders who have conviction and dedication to protecting retirement benefits and defending other basic union principles such as CSEA State President Michael Bilbrey, incumbent candidate for the CalPERS Board of Administration.
AEU encourages you to participate in phone banking activities for the Bilbrey for CalPERS Board campaign. AEU is delivering “Pensions Matter to All” stickers to AEU members to wear during the work day and during “Bilbrey for CalPERS Board” phone banking.