41. James said that he also wanted an improved health plan and a decrease in employee-paid pension contributions . 42. The pension contributions are income tax deductible. 43. Friday morning, for example, he ordered one director of a private factory to raise all pension contributions . 44. The Association of Flight Attendants also backs United's pension contribution strategy, spokeswoman Sara Nelson Dela Cruz said. 45. The union was expected to suggest shifting future pension contributions to a union-sponsored plan during the negotiations. 46. The government believes it would be political suicide to allow pension contributions to rise above 30 percent. 47. Current pension contributions , evenly divided between employees and employers, amount to about 20 percent of gross pay. 48. But it is the Generation X worker on whom the pension contributions ax has fallen most sharply. 49. But in 1968, Social Security taxes were still being withheld from their checks, instead of pension contributions . 50. VW will make additional pension contributions for those workers to reduce the effect on their retirement benefits.