2019 July
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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Thanks to the hard work and dedication of thousands of BCTGM members, pensioners and other union members across the U.S., the U.S. House of Representatives voted yesterday to pass H.R. 397, the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act. The legislation is an essential step to help secure the retirement security of more than 1.5 million workers and retirees nationwide. “Many experts told us as recently as last week that getting this to vote before the upcoming...

25 July, 2019

On Wednesday, July 24, the full U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on The Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act (H.R. 397), which strengthens pension plans and avoids retiree benefit reductions through long-term, low-interest loans to eligible plans such as the B&C Fund. It is critical that all BCTGM members, retirees together with families and friends, urge their U.S. Representatives to vote for H.R. 397: Take Action from the BCTGM E-Activist Center...

23 July, 2019

The House passed a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour in a win for labor and living wage activists who have fought hard to give low-wage workers a raise. The Democratic-held chamber passed the plan in a 231-199 vote. Six Democrats opposed it, while three Republicans supported it. The measure would gradually hike the U.S. minimum wage to $15 by 2025, then index further hikes to median wage growth. It would also...

19 July, 2019

Bipartisan multiemployer pension reform legislation creating a federal loan program for struggling plans was approved on July 10 by the House Ways and Means Committee. Before the committee vote, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.), led a rally on Capitol Hill attended by BCTGM members, retirees and scores of other multiemployer pension fund union members pushing for the bill's passage. The bill, H.R. 397, introduced by House Ways and Means Committee...

16 July, 2019