(RNS1-JUL29) Beth Lewis, CEO of Augsburg Fortress Publishers, said terminating the company's pension program was a more ``equitable'' solution than letting funds run out within five years and leaving most stakeholders with nothing. For use with RNS-PENSION-SPAT, transmitted July 28, 2010. RNS photo courtesy Karen Dersnah/ELCA News Service. | Download/Purchase this photo
July 28, 2010
NEWS STORY
Pension fight raises moral and legal concerns for ELCA, publisher
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald
RNS-PENSION-SPAT
(RNS) As the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America fights to stay out of a legal battle over unpaid pension benefits, all sides agree on at least one point: more is at stake than the dollars owed to some 500 pensioners of Augsburg Fortress, the ELCA's publishing arm. G. Jeffrey MacDonald reports. About 800. With photo.


