2/28/2008: Healthy Companies' Moves to Halt Pension Benefit Sign Retirement Costs Now Fall on Employees (IndyStar.com.)
Excerpt: "While it was no surprise when GM, an ailing enterprise that lost $8.6 billion in 2005, decided to freeze its pensions, the new wave of freezes among healthy companies like IBM, Verizon and Lockheed-Martin has retirement experts predicting the era of the pension soon will be over for up to three-quarters of roughly 21 million workers enrolled in such plans."
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