A labor official walking door-to-door tells people that their union pensions could be jeopardized.

Another writer said he was stopping his gifts because his union pension was cut in half.

By comparison, the assets managed by traditional corporate and union pension funds has grown much less quickly - from $700 billion to $1.4 trillion.

Having put in 20 years at the company, he has long relied on his union pension to provide a comfortable life for him in retirement.

At age 65, Mr. Bottomley can expect to get about $1,300 a month from his union pension.

He and his wife could live on $500 a month from Social Security, plus $381 from a union pension.

He was 76 and living nicely on $1,200 a month: $700 from Social Security and $500 from a union pension.

Since he started drawing Social Security benefits and a union pension in 1984, he has cut his taxi shifts to four a week, from six.

More than half the employees had put in more than the 10 years required to qualify for a union pension.

Her father worked for 34 years on a Chevrolet assembly line and has a union pension.