At the core of this book is a desire to question the proposition that workers and their organizations can exert meaningful control over pension funds in the context of current financial markets.
Contributing authors review the recent experience of pension “austerity” by comparing the situations of Canada, the US, the UK and Australia. The concluding chapter argues that the central implication of this recent history is an urgent need for a re-orientation of trade union and working class movements to a demand for adequate, universal pension provision that is no longer embedded in financial markets.
Sylvia Sioufi: (moderator)
President, Canadian Staff Union
Chris Roberts: (co-editor) ( 5:00) & ( 34:21 )
Director, Social and Economic Policy,
Canadian Labour Congress
Kevin Skerrett : (co-editor) ( 11:34 )
Research Officer,
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
Nancy Parker (discussant) ( 47:39 )
Retired Researcher, CUPE
Coordinator, Ottawa committee for Pension Security
Q & A : ( 1:02:27 )
