Pension Problems

2019

• Thousands of UC Retirees Get Late Pension Checks (KCRA 4/1/19)

2018

• The California (Pension) Rule (UCLAFA 11/15/18)
• Money with a proviso (UCLAFA 5/30/18)
• Pension Theft (UCLAFA 5/2/18)
• USSbriefs (Medium 4/3/18)
• University Lecturers Begin Strike Action Over Pensions (Guardian 2/22/18)
• Demands Against the Long Crisis of the University (Critical Legal Thinking 2/14/18)
• High Hurdle for Pension Cuts in New Court Ruling (Calpensions 1/9/18)

2017

• Listen to the Regents Investments Subcommittee of Nov. 14, 2017 (UCLAFA 11/15/17)
• Meant to break it? (Cloudminder 2/16/17)
• Pension Cutting (UCLAFA 1/9/17)

2016

• Nice Work If You Can Get It (UCLAFA 12/10/16)
• Public Sector Pensions Under Attack (Portside 10/17/16)
• UC Issues Its Own Version of Recent Trends (UCLAFA 3/30/16)
• Proposed Pension Limits will Lead to UC’s Decline (Sac Bee 2/18/16)
• Stop the Pension Train (UCLAFA 2/12/16)
• UC Senate Rejection of Tier 3 Pension (UCLAFA 2/11/16)
• Faculty Voice Opposition to Pension Proposal (UCLAFA 2/1/16)
• Pension Initiative Refiling May Include Legislation (Calpensions 1/25/16)

2015

• Stock Market Gyrations: What’s the Right Lesson? (EPRN 8/31/15)
• Questions Will be Raised - Probably the Wrong Ones (UCLAFA 8/28/15)
• Another Lesson from the Stock Market (UCLAFA 8/25/15)
• Why You Should Worry About the Legislature's One-Time Allocation to the UC Pension (UCLAFA 8/24/15)
• Dan Mitchell on the Dangers of New Pension Proposals (UCLAFA 8/23/15)
• Count the Bad Ideas in California Pension Overhaul Proposal (LAT 8/15/15)
• Janet Napolitano Makes History as University of California Pension Reformer (Independent Institute 7/30/15)
• Hidden Meaning? (UCLAFA 6/29/15)
• Yet Another Pension Headache for UC (UCLAFA 6/4/15)
• Will Brown's Pension Plan Damage UC? (Calpensions 5/18/15 - H/t Dan Mitchell)
• Cracks Starting to Appear in Public Pensions’ Armor (NYT 2/25/15)
• Too Tier-full? (UCLAFA 2/3/15)

2014

• Tackling the Big Debt That Lawmakers Let Balloon (Calpensions 12/22/14)
• Rising Retirement Costs Help Drive UC Plan to Raise Tuition (SacBee 11/16/14)
• Study: Hedge Funds Taking Over Pension Fund Investments, Increasing Risk (FDL 6/4/14)
• San Jose Mayor Halts Push for Pension Initiative (LAT 3/14/14)
• Implications for California as Detroit Seeks to Slash Pensions (SacBee 2/21/14)
• The Wolf of Sesame Street: Revealing the Secret Corruption Inside PBS’s News Division (Pando 2/12/14)
• Public Pension Measure Likely Off the 2014 Ballot (SacBee 1/30/14)
• Chloe Lew: UC Should Focus on Pension During Budget Revision (Daily Bruin 1/15/14)
• Follow Me, Says Crane (UCLAFA 1/6/14)

2013

• CalSTRS benefits boost state economy (CTA 11/13)
• Op Ed: Reed’s Anti-Pension Drive Enrages Labor (Calbuzz 11/11/13)
• UC Union Authorizes a Possible Strike at Campuses, Hospitals (LAT 11/1/13)
• Pension Cutters: Bipartisan Slogans, Right-Wing Money (FDL 10/31/13)
• Initiative would cut UC employees’ pension benefits (Daily Bruin 10/24/13)
• FPPC Levies Record Fines Against Dark Money Groups (Calitics 10/24/13)
• Wall Street’s Favorite Democrat Wants Your Pension (Salon 10/23/13)
• Anti-Pension Cabal? Smells That Way (UCLAFA 10/22/13)
• Curtain Lifted on Pension Initiative (UCLAFA 10/15/13)
• Will "Pension Reform" Be on Next Year's Ballot? (Calitics 9/3/13)

2011

• State Worker Pensions: The Sky Is Not Falling (Part III) (California Budget Bites 6/14/11)
• State Worker Pensions: The Sky Is Not Falling (Part II) (California Budget Bites 6/3/11)
• State Worker Pensions: The Sky Is Not Falling (Part I) (California Budget Bites 5/26/11)
• Going Hafsies on Pensions? (Calitics 5/24/11) 
• UC Pension Plan May Be Targeted Today (UCLAFA 5/5/11)
• Proposals would cut benefits for California employees 25% to 40% (LAT 5/5/11)
• Times/USC Dornsife polle: California voters want public employees to help ease state's financial troubles (LAT 4/24/11)
• Public pension reform, not public-worker bashing (LAT 4/15/11)
• Big Money Doesn't Like Being Held Accountable (Calitics 4/11/11) 
• Cutting public pensions now won't save California (LAT 4/11/11) 
• Numbers Do Lie When They're Used by Pension Busters (CPR 4/6/11) 
• "I am sorry I am a teacher" (Car Family 4/3/11)
• State Republicans Aim to Destroy Public Pensions (CPR 1/28/11)
• Edley Pleads Innocent to Pension Dumbness (Christopher Edley 1/10/11)
• The Shameful Attack on Public Employees (Salon 1/6/11)

2010

• UC Dean Christopher Edley Defends Pension Demands (SF Gate 12/31/10)
• UC execs try to squeeze more from fragile pension fund (SJ Merc-News 12/30/10)
• Assembly to See Proposed Cap on UC Pension Eligiblity (Biz Journal 12/30/10)
• UC regents seek to cut retirees' pension eligibility and health benefits (LAT 12/14/10)
• Yudof Announces Proposed Retirement Changes (UCRP Future 10/26/10)
• Yudof Decides on Pension Recommendation (UCLAFA 10/25/10)
• Fact Sheet on Proposed UCRP Changes (UCSC Senate 10/18/10)
• Why All the Pension Options are Bad (Samuels, Changing Universities 10/18/10)
• Presentations at UCLA PEB Town Hall (UCLA Senate 10/14/10)
• Pension Options A & B Would Make UC Uncompetititve (Chalfant, Hunt 10/10)
• Critical Annotation of UCOP's Defense of Pension Options A & B (Chalfant, Hunt 10/10)
• Bob Anderson Responds to Pitts and Brostrom (UCI Senate 9/26/10)
• Brostrom, Pitts and Taylor Try to Dismiss PEB Dissenting Report (UCPR Future 9/25/10)
• Regents Pass Increases in Pension Contributions (SFC 9/16/10)
• UC-AFT President Bob Samuels on the Meaning of Pension Changes (Subversities 9/12/10)
• Regents to Consider Controversial Pension Plan (SFGate 9/10/10)
• The Great Pension Scare (ChangingUniversities 8/31/10)
• Public University Pensions in Crisis (CHE 8/31/10)
• What will the Proposed Plans REALLY do to Faculty Renumeration? (UCLAFA 8/31/10)
• Appendices Post-Employment Benefits Report (UCRP Future 8/30/10)
• Analysis of Pension Report (California Professor 8/30/10)
• Arnold Wants to Count Future Calpers Cuts As Deficit Reduction (Bloomberg 8/20/10)
• "Judgement Day" Coming On Retiree Health and Pension Plans (UCLAFA 8/15/10)
• Exploding Myths About Pension Options (UCLAFA 8/11/10)
• How Well Have the Regents Managed UCRP? (Schwartz 8/11/10)
• Stanford Confronts Greying Faculty (Merc News 7/10/10)
• CA Cities and Counties Look to Cut Pensions (SacBee 7/9/10)
• The "Economic Madness" of Cutting Pensions (CPR 6/21/10)
• CHP, Other Unions Will Retire Later, Pay More (Business Week 6/17/10)
• States Move to Cut Higher Ed Pensions (IHE 5/5/10)
• U Illinois Pensions Slashed (SJR 4/13/10)
• Pension Scare and the Shock Doctrine (Calitics 4/10/10)
• Why Faculty Should Not Buy Into the Pension Scare (Samuels, Changing Universities 4/9/10)
• Pension Funds Still Waiting for Big Payoff From Private Equity (NYT 4/2/10)
• Mark Yudof's Pension Plan, pp 3-4 (UC Regents 3/27/08)
• What's Happening with the UC Pension Fund? (CharlieSchwartz 2/23/10)
• UCRP 2010 Task Force Report (UCRP Future 2010)