Your Association is actively attacking current management excesses with any means at our disposal. In the last 4 years we have had record Proxy votes victories which has gotten Verizon's attention.  Then last year we won another Proxy which should give shareholders a say in executive compensation. These wins (5 total) also sent a message to the Verizon Executives that their shareholders do care about how they reward themselves.  It also shows to all those who voted their shares with us that we are now a clear majority of shareowners and can change the way our corporate executives behave if we have a common goal and work together.

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In March of 2006, individual members of your Association's Board of Directors formed ProtectSeniors.Org with an ABTR founding grant.ProtectSeniors.Org is a separate lobbying organization, set up, specifically to lobby Congress for the passage of the HR1322 (TheEmergency Retiree Health Benefits Protection Act.)  The Association of BellTel Retirees, as a nonprofit charitable organization, is not allowed by the IRS to spend more than 20% of it's budget on lobbying.

Protect your earned benefits by not allowing corporate PR spin doctors sell the main stream media on your hard eared benefits being a "GIFT."
Never allow any Radio/TV commentator or other news media person get away with saying something like this: "Corporate retirees are lucky their company still offers this gift." Or "Corporation X can't afford this benevolent "welfare" benefit for retirees anymore."

You, as a retiree, EARNED your healthcare benefit! It is not a gift! Call or write the offending media source and give them the facts. Tell them, how every year you worked, you were given an update of what your healthcare and other benefits in retirement were worth. During all your years of service you were constantly reminded by upper level management that your retirement benefits package was a real sweet deal. They always pulled this out when you were considering quitting. After all, it was a known fact at all levels of the Corporation, that this company would always take care of their retirees... How things have changed.