Retiree Organizing Committee (ROC) Caucus

Dear Fellow State Retiree

We are state retirees and members of the Texas State Employees Union Retiree Organizing Committee (roc). We are asking you to join us.
  Hitting retirement should allow us to relax, spend time with our families and friends, travel, and feel secure that the retirement benefits that we’ve earned will be there for the rest of our lives. Unfortunately and unfairly, attacks on our pension and health benefits do not stop.
  Some state leaders openly declare that our pension and health benefits are not guaranteed. Legislators have let two decades go by with our pensions frozen. Our pension checks buy less than half of what they did in 2001, the last time we got an increase. This is largely because legislators cut the state contribution to our pensions in the late 1990s, and the fund never caught up.
  Most of us were active members of the Texas State Employees Union (TSEU) before we retired. We’re proud to be part of the union that has stood and fought for good pay and benefits for active employees and retirees, for quality state services for the people of Texas, and for basic justice and equity in our workplaces and communities. We are proud to continue as TSEU members now that we’ve retired.
  The times keep getting harder. The attacks on state employees and state services keep getting get worse. But we’ve learned that, no matter how difficult the challenges, we can win if we stick together and work together. We’re asking you to join us in defending our hard fought gains and winning new victories.