"This past month, meetings in Columbus, Ohio, and Kansas City, Missouri, drew 600 and 500 Teamsters and family members, respectively. Milwaukee saw nearly 300 and Cincinnati more than 200. Retirees have formed active 'Committees to Protect Pensions' in 20 cities, with Facebook pages set up in a dozen more.... The pension committees are demanding that trustees of the Teamsters' mammoth Central States Pension Fund, with 407,000 members, stop the rush to achieve solvency on their backs, and find another way to shore up the fund's ailing finances."  MORE >>