Sentence examples for support for pensions from inspiring English sources

Cutting support for pensions simply to plug a hole in the nation's finances would have been dangerously short-termist.

The leftist insisted that the aid – €61m in supplementary support for pensions and €11.5m for the school meals – would be taken from the primary surplus his government, unexpectedly, had managed to achieve.

The guild and the federation are seeking increased support for pensions and health care, as well as changes in the current 20-year-old home video residuals formula applicable not only to DVD sales but also to reruns, free television, basic cable and pay cable.

Getting cross-party support for pension reform is important, he says.

A member of the General Union of Workers, Valeriano Gómez, becomes minister of labour, with the task of gaining union support for pension reform.

And in late 2008, just as the financial crisis began to explode, Mr. Bloomberg granted 4 percent raises for two consecutive years to the city's largest municipal workers' union, District Council 37, without extracting support for pension givebacks.

There's even more bipartisan support for pension changes.

On one side stands the Socialist-led government and the labor unions, who agree to the need for an overhaul of retirement savings but fear that introducing government support for private pensions will favor mainly the wealthy.

U.P.S. has quickly won support for its pension initiative in Washington.

Even if it is not completed this week, some Congressional leaders say they will seek support for a pension relief bill in January.

"About one hour's movement in the stock market is more than any of these changes," he said about the declining state support for the pension system.