WASHINGTON – After the U.S. Senate passed the Social Security Fairness Act of 2024, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union released the following statement by CWA Public, Healthcare and Education Workers Vice President Margaret Cook:
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Our union represents over 130,000 public service workers in dozens of states across this country. For decades, tens of thousands of CWA members and their families have asked for a fair deal and to fix the unjust policies of the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset. These policies unfairly slashed the retirements of millions of public service workers after lifetimes of serving their communities.Â
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These unjust policies hit regular folks who have dedicated their lives to careers of service – folks like Susan, a CWA member and retiree from Columbus, Ohio who got up and went to work everyday for decades to help with nutritional needs for children in her city and serve those in real need. Susan didn’t ask for much from that work – but what she counted on was being able to retire with dignity and security in the community she’d worked so hard to strengthen.
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Today, the promise of a dignified retirement for public service workers like Susan has been restored through the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act. Millions of working class people, people who make our communities work each and every day, will now get the retirement that they have earned and deserve.Â
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Our members are grateful for the advocacy and friendship of Senator Sherrod Brown in defending the dignity of hard work in his work on this bill.Â
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