The accounting rules for pensions allow people to do things you wouldn't believe. The rules are the problem.
Ron Ryan
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The problem will become much worse. To call upon taxpayers - most of whom don't have defined-benefit pensions - to pay for the benefits of those who do would be fundamentally unfair.
Bradley Belt
It seems odds-on that General Motors has to reorganize if it is to solve its problems with burdensome legacy costs -- pensions and health care.
Marty Whitman
We believe our members should receive the full amount of the pensions promised by United and not just scraps left over from the bankruptcy.
Joseph Tiberi
They end up paying more of their health care and they end up with lousier pensions - if they keep one at all.
Mark Gaffney
Like most industrial companies, Boeing is trying to keep the lid on pensions and post-retirement health care costs.
Peter Jacobs
Our expectation was that it would have to do with Social Security, pensions, or health care.
Craig Brimhall
Our pensions trusts are more than adequately funded, and nothing in the merger agreement changes BellSouth's, or after closing [of the deal], AT&T's obligation to honor existing pensions.
Joe Chandler
It's an entirely new phenomenon for healthy companies to freeze their pensions.
Alicia Munnell
We believe (the employee pensions) are very fair and very competitive.
Gary Sheffer
BA is a profitable company not one in crisis. It must be remembered that pensions are deferred earnings.
Brendan Gold
Pensions are not protected from equitable settlements in a divorce.
John C. Collins
The company's latest offer showed no substantial improvements on our top three issues, which are pensions, health care and job security.
Connie Kelliher
If they want to spy on us, give us all the benefits of an employee. The health insurance, the pensions, everything.
Jahangir Alam
The government must not squander this golden opportunity to radically reform the pensions system.
Gordon Lishman
We have provided competitive salaries, affordable wages and good pensions to our employees and remain committed to do that.
Joe Mcinerney
The wages, benefits and pensions are not going to be as lucrative. We know that. But what they've put on the table is not acceptable.
George Anthony
The most critical issue we have on the table is the issue of job security. What we're saying to our members is if they don't have a job, it does no good to negotiate wages and benefits and pensions.
Dick Schneider
We're the baby-boomer generation who have become a bit disenchanted with traditional pensions.
Colin Smith
The workforce is probably as demoralized as any of us would be if our jobs were flailing, our pay was cut in half, our benefits were cut out and our pensions were taken away. Expecting the workforce to be as customer-oriented as it has been in the past is probably not reasonable.
Brent Bowen
The concept that the employer is going to take care of things is clearly going by the wayside. We've largely shifted to a defined-contribution approach to pensions. With health care, that's clearly the direction we're heading, for the same reasons.
Joseph Antos
Partnership Pensions build on the best feature of the Pensions Commission's proposal and existing state provision.
Stephen Haddrill
This is a solution that will provide competitive, affordable pensions for the future.
Willie Walsh
We don't believe that fulfilling 65 percent of a pledge to fund the pensions fully meets the commitments that were made during the campaign.
Bob Master
That is why we shall fight this all the way in the courts to win back the pensions that our members and their families were told were guaranteed.
Michael Leahy
People are aware that they have a major problem with their retirement pensions [and] health insurance - they know that they're going to have to contribute more. That makes them insecure.
Hubertus Pellengahr
During these negotiations, there has been a lot of discussion about pensions. What hasn't received much discussion is the concept of balance.
Jerry Calhoun
That was alarming because if my pensions depended on Delphi, I'd have no faith in it at all. We would prefer to have our money up front.
Gregg Shotwell
We heard what the union was saying about pensions.
Charles Bickers
It is important that we put in fiscally responsible pensions. Pensions that are fair to the employee, but that also are fair to the taxpayer.
Keith Richman
Pensions and health benefits are completely different, and they need to be treated differently by policy-makers because changes that work for one may or may not work for the other.
Keith Brainard
Overall, pension schemes are well governed and continue to succeed in delivering decent, cost-effective pensions to millions of people.
Christine Farnish
What struck me the most was he said he's going to try to keep Delphi pensions solvent. And I was struck that he would think that any of us would trust that.
Gregg Shotwell
[Pilots will] do anything to avoid Chapter 11, because it's guaranteed that the pensions are going to die, ... Pilots take it on the chin. Pilots face a catastrophic loss in standard of living or income when pension payment plans go bad.
Joseph Schwieterman
There's four big ticket items we have no control over - special education, healthcare, pensions and construction costs - and these are the things impacting our budget the most.
Larry Feinberg
This just echoes what I've heard all over the state. State employees just don't trust the governor. They don't trust him with their pensions, they don't trust him to hire competent managers, they don't trust him with the state budget.
Edwin Eisendrath
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