A high-powered coalition is coming together to support the legislature’s latest attempt at a pension reform plan.
Lawmakers of both parties, the head of the Teachers Retirement System, the leader of a taxpayers’ group and others are supporting the legislation, which they say is a bipartisan effort to address the looming crisis.
But public sector unions are vowing to fight the bill, which they call morally wrong and unconstitutional because it would reduce benefits for current and future retirees.
