{"id":320795,"date":"2026-03-09T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/320795\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:08:13","slug":"thousands-rally-at-mvp-arena-urging-lawmakers-to-fix-new-yorks-tier-6-pensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/320795\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands rally at MVP Arena, urging lawmakers to fix New York\u2019s Tier 6 pensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, NY (WRGB) \u2014 Thousands of New York state public workers packed MVP Arena today, urging lawmakers to overhaul the state\u2019s Tier 6 retirement system.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State United Teachers union said roughly 780,000 employees who began working after April 1, 2012, are in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osc.ny.gov\/retirement\/members\/retirement-benefit-summary-tier-6-ers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tier 6<\/a> and face longer careers, higher retirement contributions and reduced benefits compared with co-workers in earlier tiers.<\/p>\n<p>Union leaders said they are not asking for extra compensation, but for the retirement benefits they say were promised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t see fixing tier 6 as something we want to get; we see it as something that was taken away that we need to get back,\u201d said Sam Fresina, president of the New York Professional Fire Fighters Association.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Cilento of the New York State AFL-CIO said the state has failed to uphold a long-standing commitment to public employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDecades ago, there was a promise made by this state. The promise was that if you dedicated your life to public service, then when you retire, you would be able to live your retirement, have a retirement of dignity, of self-respect, and financial independence. Fourteen years ago, this state broke that promise,\u201d Cilento said.<\/p>\n<p>NYSUT President Melinda Person said Tier 6 is contributing to a workforce shortage because the retirement plan is less attractive, pushing professionals away from public service careers. Person warned that if the system is not fixed now, the state risks a larger staffing crisis in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, NY (WRGB) \u2014 Thousands of New York state public workers packed MVP Arena today, urging lawmakers to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-320795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}