AFSCME Illinois Retiree Chapter 31

Amanda Creighton from Senior Services Associates spoke at Kane's sub-chapter 67's June Meeting. Chuck Battaglia, Treasurer, JoAnne Shorter, VP and Dee Battaglia, President.

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During a joint hearing between two House Ways and Means Subcommittees Wednesday, Commissioner Frank Bisignano was grilled about the SSA’s long callback times, field office closures and staff shortages.

Lawmakers discuss Social Security, have no plan to prevent insolvency | The Highland County Press The program’s insolvency will automatically trigger a benefit cut of 22% or more, impacting more than 60 million American retirees, 43% of whom rely on Social Security for the majority of their income. Yet lawmakers barely touched on ways to address the fund’s depletion during the two-hour Wedne...

A strong labor activist who worked in solidarity passes at 108!

Joy in the Struggle: The life of Bea Lumpkin, 1918-2026 Beatrice Shapiro Lumpkin came roaring into the world on Aug. 3, 1918, and she went out of it just after midnight on June 14, 2026, hailed by labor and progressive leaders around the country as a “matriarch of the movement.