The Pension Rights Center works with many wonderful grassroots activists around the country. Each is committed to pension justice and many have achieved astonishing victories against overwhelming odds.
Click the links below to read profiles of activists who have been successful in getting their voices heard on pension issues. Check back to read about other activists whose profiles will be added over the next few months.
Frank Bryant is a founding member of the Central States Pension Improvement Committee and has organized a group of Teamsters to communicate with Congress about their concerns.
C. William Jones, who formed the Association of BellTell Retirees to persuade Verizon to provide regular increases in pensions for its retirees, has spearheaded the passage of resolutions at the company's annual shareholder meetings.
Helen Quirini, co-chair of the GE Retirees Justice Fund has successfully used a variety of grassroots and shareholder strategies to convince General Electric to provide pensioners a series of cost-of-living adjustments.
Janice Winston rallied a group of Verizon employees to convince company executives to reverse their decision to require all employees to switch to a new, less generous pension plan.
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