Retirement Plans

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2014

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits Disclosure [Text Block]

Note 10. Retirement Plans

The Company sponsors a pension and various other postretirement benefit plans for its employees. Each plan serves a defined group of employees and has varying levels of Company contributions. The Company’s contributions to certain plans may be required by the terms of the Company’s collective bargaining agreements.

The following tables provide the components of net periodic pension benefit cost and other post-retirement benefit cost (in thousands):

	Pension Benefits				Other Benefits
	Three Months Ended March 31,				Three Months Ended March 31,
	2014		2013		2014		2013
Service cost	$	8	$	14	$	2	$	-
Interest cost		2,740		2,553		175		135
Expected return on plan assets (a)		(3,252)		(3,098)		-		-
Prior service cost amortization		(24)				33
Net periodic benefit cost / (income)	$	(528)	$	(531)	$	210	$	135

(a) Expected rate of return on plan assets is 7.40% for 2014 and was 7.40% for 2013

The Company expects its minimum pension funding requirements to be $16.6 million during 2014. The Company made contributions of $3.3 million to the Pension Plan during the three months ended March 31, 2014.

Additionally, the Company contributed $1.2 million to its defined contribution retirement plans during the three months ended March 31, 2014.