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- Successe
- Press releases from the Association of BellTel Retirees
- News articles on the Association of BellTel Retirees
- External links
The Association of BellTel Retirees, Inc. advocates for more than 205,000 Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, GTE, MCI, Idearc/SuperMedia, and Verizon union and management retirees. The association also represents active Verizon employees regarding retiree issues, such as cash balance plan conversions and termination of management pension and healthcare benefits. Corporations have been cutting back on retiree pensions and healthcare coverage. The Association’s advocacy works to prevent widespread cuts for Verizon and SuperMedia retirees. The 134,000 members of the Association of BellTel Retirees have banded together to fight for the protection of retirees. The association believes that with all retirees acting together they can achieve pension inflation protection and, through congressional action, restore and protect the healthcare benefits that have been chiseled away through passage of federal retiree healthcare protection legislation. In 2006, Verizon retirees from the association founded ProtectSeniors.Org, which lobbies for retiree-friendly legislation, specifically the Employee Benefits Protection Act (H. R. 2578). In a class federal action lawsuit, participants in Verizon’s (VZ) pension plans who were involuntarily transferred to Idearc’s pension plans in November 2006 have pending claims of ERISA violations including: - Breach of fiduciary duty for failure to comply with pension plan document rules; and
- Other ERISA violations justifying that the federal court order declaratory, injunctive and other equitable relief, and restore the retirees into Verizon’s sponsored employee benefit plans.
The Association of BellTel Retirees can be found on Facebook. Successe- Three increases to the minimum pension for retirees of the former Bell Atlantic were won in 1999, 2000, and 2001.
- Proxy campaign success wins elimination of Verizon executive golden parachutes and bloated executive bonuses in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007. The 2003 win was the first time any Bell System Company was ever defeated in a proxy vote in its 125-year history. The association won the Say on Pay proxy by a 50.18% vote in 2007.
- Securing a lump sum pension payment of up to $20,000 for approximately 91,000 retirees in 2000.
- More than a dozen Annual Retiree Meetings held throughout the United States, attended by thousands of retirees.
Press releases from the Association of BellTel Retirees- Retirees Take on Verizon Senior Management Over Compensation & Bonuses - April 2011{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Retirees' Pension Lawsuit Against Verizon & SuperMedia (Formerly Idearc) Certified as Class Action -March 2011{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
News articles on the Association of BellTel Retirees- Fortune Magazine - We Won't Be Ignored - August 13, 2001
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090804134650/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_46/b3808119.htm Business Week -Revenge of the Retirees - November 18, 2002]
- Fortune Magazine – A Big Win For the Little Guys for Shareholder Activists 2003 Shaping Up to Be a Very Good Year – June 16, 2003
- [https://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/retirement/2006-01-16-pension-funds_x.htm USA Today - Pension Funds Fall Short of Guarantees - January 16, 2006]
- [https://archive.is/20130131113714/http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_505838.html Pittsburgh Tribune – Review - Verizon Retirees Seek Say on Pay - May 3, 2007]
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/business/04pay.html New York Times - Verizon Vote On Pay Levels To Be Decided In a Recount –May 4, 2007]
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/19/technology/19verizon.html New York Times – Say On Pay Gets Support at Verizon – May 19, 2007]
- [https://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS188866+09-Apr-2009+MW20090409 Reuters - Verizon Retirees to Shareowners: Vote Nay on Pay- April 9, 2009]
- Philadelphia Inquirer - Verizon Retirees Group Continues to Advocate for Change - April 22, 2009
- Huffington Post - Retirees Group To Vote Against Verizon CEO’s Pay – March 31, 2009
- Verizon Shareholders Approve Executive pay – May 7, 2009
- Dallas Business Journal - Idearc Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. sued by retirees - January 4, 2010
- Crain's New York Business - Putting Verizon CEO's Pay Through The Wringer - March 28, 2010 (subscription required)
- Crain's New York Business - Facing the Music on Boss Pay - June 20, 2010{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Bergen Record - Retirees Seek To Limit Verizon Executive Bonuses -March 31, 2011{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Star Ledger -Retirees Seek To Limi Verizon Executive Bonuses - March 31, 2011{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Bloomberg News - Verizon Retiree Group Proposes Performance Share Payout Limits- March 29, 2011{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Long Island Business News - Verizon retirees sue to protect their pensions - June 17, 2011
- Times Ledger - Doug retiree battles on to keep BellTel benefits - June 22, 2011
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304122710/http://antonnews.com/syossetjerichotribune/news/17536-fighting-for-retiree-benefits-for-15-years.html/ Syosset Jericho Tribune - Fighting for Retiree Benefits for 15 Years - September 2, 2011]
- The Ocean Star - Resident works with retiree group to protect pensions - October 7, 2011{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111024190012/http://www.queenstribune.com/news/News_102011_Bell-Tel.html Queens Tribune - Retirees Celebrate 15 Years of Fight - October 20, 2011]
- Star Democrat - Easton resident continues fight for retiree benefits - December 1, 2011
- Courier News and Home News Tribune - N.J. must protect benefits of those already retired - December 6, 2011
- [https://archive.is/20130120060850/http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20111209/NJOPINION03/312090001/N-J-must-protect-benefits-those-already-retired Daily Record - N.J. must protect benefits of those already retired - December 6, 2011]
External links- Official website
- Official website of ProtectSeniors.Org
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090709083318/http://www.aflcio.org/issues/healthcare/survey/2009results.cfm AFL-CIO and Working America 2009 Health Care for America Survey]
- Testimony of C. William Jones –President of the Association of BellTel Retirees and Chairman of ProtectSeniors.Org -Before The U.S. House of Representatives- Committee on Education & Labor- Hearing on Safeguarding Retiree Health Benefits - Thursday, September 25, 2008
- The Association of BellTel Retirees Facebook page
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2B33t7GcCg&feature=channel&list=UL The Association of BellTel Retirees YouTube Video, Tug of War - Who Do Corporate Boards Represent Best, Themselves or Shareowners???]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVn-K2lAY1o&feature=channel&list=UL The Association of BellTel Retirees YouTube Video, What Would Angus Macdonald Think?]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpoMWSJRw1I The Association of BellTel Retirees YouTube Video, Retirement Used To Be Easy]
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