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PA AFL-CIO Roundtable Hears Social Security Stories

Protect Social Security, Don't Privatize It They Say

Harrisburg, PA -- Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President William M. George and Secretary-Treasurer Richard W. Bloomingdale today held a roundtable discussion on Social Security featuring retirees, disabled persons, survivors, and young workers who talked about the importance of strengthening Social Security and opposing President Bush and Senator Rick Santorum’s Social Security privatization plan.

“Privatization  is not just a debate about 33 million retired workers and their families, there are another 15 million beneficiaries of the Social Security survivors and disability insurance program, whose security will be lost under President Bush and Senator Rick Santorum’s proposed overhaul. In addition, 4 million children benefit from the Social Security program, making it the largest children’s benefits program in the nation,” Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President William George said.

 “Social Security is too important to all Americans, - Republicans, Democrats, male, female, young, and old regardless of ethnicity - to allow President Bush and the Rick Santorum’s of the world to carve it up into private accounts. Social Security needs some adjustments to protect workers today and in the future, but we don’t need to dismantle Social Security in order to fix it,” George said. MORE

PA AFL-CIO Launches New Web Site

The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO has redesigned its Web site, www.paaflcio.org, to better respond to the needs of union and non-union workers across Pennsylvania.

"The internet and e-mail have transformed how politics and organizing are done, and it was clear to the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO that it was time to update our Web-based offerings," said William George, president of the Harrisburg-based association of Pennsylvania labor unions.

"We think we have succeeded in creating a site that will serve as a hub for union activism in Pennsylvania," said Bethany Bobb who supervised the development of the site with PR/Design, a Lewisburg-based new media development firm specializing in work for non-profit and public advocacy organizations. MORE

 

 

 

 

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