Keep our pensions out of privatization
There’s a new resource for CUPE members, pension trustees and anti-privatization activists who want to keep public services and infrastructure in public hands. The Keep our pensions out of privatization toolkit gives CUPE activists and pension representatives information about the dangers of pension funds investing in public-private partnerships (P3s) and other types of privatization.
Retirement security is key to solving housing crisis
The affordable housing crisis in Canada means that home ownership is out of reach for many workers. It is also becoming more difficult to find safe, clean, and comfortable rental housing.
One surprising obstacle to housing affordability? Canada’s inadequate public pensions. Too many people must rely on the value of their home going up – worsening affordability for future generations – in order to retire.
Strategic responses to local pension threats
In the past several years, CUPE locals in every jurisdiction and every sector have been facing unprecedented attacks on their workplace pension plans. For decades, such attacks were commonplace in the private sector, where employers have been campaigning, with some success, to replace defined benefit pension plans with less-secure defined contribution plans. However, as governments at all levels and right-wing groups push agendas of austerity, public sector employers are increasingly attacking the pensions of their workers as well.
