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:: Monday, December 29, 2003 ::
Spokane-Idaho-Montana Carpenters Get A Raw Deal local98.com Spokane carpenters union
How do you retire on $250.00 per month?
What do you do after working 25 years as a Union Carpenter when you learn that your retirement benefit is $250.00 per month? That's right, 25 years of often back-breaking work building schools for education, bridges to improve our infrastructure and courts and jails for the community, and you are then rewarded with a pension of $250.00 per month. That is what every UBC member belonging to the Washington, Idaho, Montana Carpenters-Employers Retirement Trust can now expect from their union.
The recent reduction of pension benefits in the Spokane area violates everything the United Brotherhood of Carpenters stands for and is an unfathomable act. Even Wal-Mart employees accumulate greater pensions than UBC members in Eastern Washington, Idaho and Montana.
It was P.J. Mcguire who founded the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and first coined the phrase "Educate - Agitate - Organize". It is in his spirit of brotherhood and solidarity that Spokane, Eastern Washington, Idaho and Montana Union Carpenters are urged to switch their books out of the jurisdiction of the Eastern Washington Trust and avail themselves of the increased benefits under another Trust. No one should work 10 years of their life for a hundred bucks a month retirement...not even a RAT!------------------------------------------- posted 7:47 AM :: reference link ::
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