Excerpt: All employers would be required to contribute to a retirement plan for their workers under a series of reform principles offered today by a group of worker advocacy and policy associations. At a conference in Washington, the group, which includes the Pension Rights Center and the Service Employees International Union, rolled out its new 'Retirement USA' initiative, which is intended to pave the way for the creation of a new retirement system that would provide workers without an employer-sponsored retirement plan enough income on top of their Social Security payments to 'maintain a reasonable standard of living in retirement,' according to a statement the group released.  MORE >>