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Association of
Ameritech/SBC Retirees
Association of Ameritech/SBC Retirees
Blue Bulletin - Vol. 2, No.2 Posted
3/29/07
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(March 28, 2007)
Proudly representing retirees from the new AT&T Midwest Region, SBC
Midwest Region,
Ameritech, as well as the five Bell Companies in Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, Ohio, and
Wisconsin
News from the
National Retiree Legislative Network
As an AASBCR
member, you are automatically a group NRLN member. Many of us are
also individual NRLN members. To better serve its members the NRLN
is surveying its membership, much like the AASBCR did late last
year. Many of us have taken the NRLN survey and it is harmless. So
far only 42 AASBCR members have taken this survey. So if the NRLN
doesn’t fully represent us, that would be our fault for not speaking
up when we had the chance. Please take a few minutes and complete
this survey.
April 1st is the deadline for you to participate in the online
National Retiree Legislative Network Opinion Survey. If you are not
one of the 4,395 individuals who have already provided responses to
the questionnaire, please click now on this link
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=792723330808.
If you are unable to reach the survey from this link, please go to
the bottom of the NRLN website home page at
http://www.nrln.org
and click on the link to the survey there.
When completing the survey, note that a number of the questions have
three, four or more sub-questions that require a response.
Questions with an asterisk require an answer before advancing to the
next page.
Your responses will be valuable to the NRLN Board and Retiree
Association leaders in planning the future direction and priorities
for the NRLN and the Retiree Associations. Results will be compiled
in total and by retiree organization affiliation. Combined results
will be posted on the NRLN website.
Thank you for your time and effort.
Jim Norby, NRLN, President
Following the NRLN’s considerable involvement in the passage of the
Pension Reform Act of 2006, we will now devote most of our energies
toward our 2007 Legislative Agenda aimed at protecting and funding
retiree health care and securing more affordable prescription drugs.
However, further strengthening of pension protections under the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) will continue to be
one of the NRLN’s primary objectives.
The NRLN’s Legislative Agenda will require all of its Grassroots
Network Advocates to communicate to their elected representatives in
Washington,
DC the importance of the agenda
issues for millions of
America’s
retirees and workers. NRLN members must impress upon our nation’s
leaders that it is their duty to help protect what retirees have
earned through years of labor.
The NRLN’s 2007 Legislative Agenda is
attached.
This is a living document and will change as situations change in
Congress and the Nation. To have any hope of implementing this
agenda, NRLN members will be called upon to let their elected
representatives know how they feel about issues that affect our
well-being as retirees. This is why, in the first 2007 Blue
Bulletin, we asked that you be enrolled in CAPWIZ. CAPWIZ allows us
to send a prepared letter to our Congresspeople - or craft our own
letter – with a few mouse clicks. As Sherlock Holmes would say:
“The game is afoot!” and, collectively, we have the opportunity to
shape our future!
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