{"id":325271,"date":"2026-03-06T17:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/325271\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:01:19","slug":"n-y-teacher-unions-push-to-roll-back-tier-6-pension-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/325271\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. teacher unions push to roll back Tier 6 pension reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen years ago, on March 14, 2012, during what would be a seismic overnight session, the New York state Legislature created a new pension tier, Tier 6, that increased the age at which teachers could retire, and increased the amount that teachers needed to contribute to their pensions.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, legislative leaders argued that the changes to the pension system would save $80 billion for state and local governments over 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>But according to union leaders Mario Cilento, president of the New York AFL-CIO, and Melinda Person, president of New York State United Teachers, severe workforce shortages have changed the calculation. They spoke with Capital Tonight\u2019s Susan Arbetter about the issue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fourteen years ago, on March 14, 2012, during what would be a seismic overnight session, the New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7495,7492,43028,7488,7494,114,7491,7489,243,268,85,46,524,43,7493,266,267,238,7487,38,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-325271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-albany-capital-region","9":"tag-app-capital-tonight","10":"tag-app-education","11":"tag-app-local-state-politics","12":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-capital-tonight","15":"tag-capital-tonight-interviews","16":"tag-education","17":"tag-finance","18":"tag-il","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-new-york-state","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","23":"tag-personal-finance","24":"tag-personalfinance","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-susan-arbetter","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}