THE ATTACK ON PENSIONS

AN LABOR TODAY SPECIAL REPORT THE ATTACK ON PENSIONS The history of pensions and the struggle to defend guaranteed income after retirement. We live in a country with private ownership of the means of production. Social Security is the only publicly guaranteed pension system in the United States. It must be defended by the working class and the trade unions. The struggle to defend and expand Social Security needs to be first on the workers ‘agenda. As Joe Glazier said: “What do you do when you are too old to work and too young to die?” The demand for the 8-hour day was so that workers could have leisure time for “what they will.” What good is leisure time in old age without sufficient guaranteed income? http://www.labortoday.us/