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Deferred Wages Falling
The policy and practice of deferred wages in the form of retirement plans including 401(k), 403(b) and so forth have shifted a lot since 1990. In the prior decades, it was a common trend to have a defined benefit plan where all the risks of the money not being there were borne by the employer and the benefit was ostensibly borne by the employer. Since 1990, there has been a noticeable shift from defined benefit to defined contribution where employees must contribute more (if not a lot more) to their own plans and the benefits and money pot present at the end of a work career is by no means guaranteed or assured. It will probably be there but possibly not (Sloane & Witney, 2010).
As for my opinion surrounding all of this, it is clear that firms have said "enough" to paying more and more money to employees who have retired and are not contributing to the firm anymore while the benefits are still flowing. As made clear by the recent downfalls (but they have all since recovered, for the most part) of the automakers, paying people inordinate amounts of money for life with little to no contribution monetarily from the employees is over (Reid, 2012). Unions have made little headway preventing that is because there are millions and billions of unfunded pension liabilities around the country in both the private and public sector and firms are saying "no more" to making that problem worse. Having a pension benefit that cannot be honored whenit comes due is, after all, a little pointless.
References
Reid, T. (2012, November 14). How Greedy Unions, Politicians Sank a California City.
RealClearPolitics - Opinion, News, Analysis, Videos and Polls. Retrieved September 24, 2013, from http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/11/14/how_greedy_unions_politicians_sank_a_california_city_295903.html
Sloane, A.A. & Witney, F. (2010). Labor relations (13th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice Hall.
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