Retirement plan key issue behind petition
Source: By Rachel Leifer, Hattiesburg American (MS), May 26, 2006
A petition 124 physical plant employees signed exhorting University of Southern Mississippi officials not to outsource their jobs to a private firm expresses concern over several issues. Chief among the signatories' worries is that Aramark's retirement plan is not competitive with the state employee retirement benefits. "The (state retirement plan) is one of the main reasons so many of us have stayed at USM even though the salaries for many of us are very low," the petition says.