Column Extra: Will pension reformers succeed?
10/24/2013 10:36 AM
10/24/2013 10:56 AM
Today’s State Worker column runs through some of the moves unions will make to fight San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed’s effort to put a public pension proposal on the November 2014 ballot. ( Last week’s column looked at strategies for Reed’s side.)
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