PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — More than a thousand public-sector workers and retirees rallied Tuesday at the Rhode Island Statehouse in opposition to a proposed overhaul of the state's vastly underfunded pension system.
Teachers, firefighters, police officers and other state and municipal employees waved signs, chanted and cheered as speakers called on lawmakers to either defeat the legislation or significantly alter it to reduce the impact on retirement benefits.
"They want to change the rules, when so many of us are one, two, three years from retiring," said Neil Barker, a 64-year-old state social worker from Coventry, R.I., who attended the rally. "They need to think carefully about what it is they're doing before they cause problems for a lot of people."
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