Saunders: It’s time we restore public service workers’ Social Security benefits
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after the House gained the signatures necessary to move forward a discharge petition on the Social Security Fairness Act:
“For too long, countless public service workers and their families have unjustly been denied the Social Security benefits they earned. And too often, they’ve been forced to work well into their golden years to survive. We celebrate the progress made on bringing the Social Security Fairness Act to the front of the agenda, and we urge the House and Senate to move quickly and vote to pass this critical, bipartisan legislation. After a lifetime of strengthening our communities, our nation’s public service workers deserve what they sacrificed for – the freedom to retire with dignity.”