If it wasn`t for union workers and labor unions, there would be no 40-hour work weeks, eight-hour work days, pensions or vacations,
- Thomas GrahamWhile we see the attractiveness of this solution to engineering firms which already contribute to employee pensions, most smaller firms simply could not afford to take such an approach.
- Susan AndersonThe do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
- William GreiderThe far more threatening problem is elsewhere - shrinking pensions, collapsed personal savings and soaring costs for health insurance.
- William GreiderI would have much rather have the new employees pay an extra 4 percent for pensions than have all of us pay an extra 1.5 percent for health care. At least new workers know what they`re getting into when they get hired.
- Kevin Rose