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Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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Senator Secured Guaranteed Vote on Senate Floor U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has announced the creation of a bipartisan, House and Senate Joint Select Committee tasked with solving the pension crisis threatening more 1.5 million workers and retirees nationwide. The solution the Committee produces will be guaranteed an expedited vote on the Senate floor. Brown secured the creation of the Committee as part of the overall budget compromise announced on Wednesday, February 7. At Brown’s urging, the...

09 February, 2018

In January, more than 3,000 BCTGM members and retirees sent email messages to members of the U.S. Senate urging their support for the Butch Lewis Act of 2017 (S.2147). The Butch Lewis Act of 2017 would put pension plans back on solid footing, ensure they can meet their obligations to current retirees and workers for decades to come without cutting the benefits retirees earned, and safeguard them for the future. Email your Senators TODAY and add your voice: Please...

02 February, 2018

It is vital that Congress address the nation’s growing pension funding crisis. The BCTGM believes that a legislative solution which provides pension plans with the funding necessary for long-term solvency without forcing trustees to reduce participants’ hard-earned pension benefits would be an important first step. After careful and comprehensive analysis, the BCTGM has determined that the Butch Lewis Act of 2017 (S.2147) is the most effective legislative proposal to address the pension crisis. Email your U.S. Senators urging them...

05 January, 2018

For BCTGM members who have dedicated their working lives to hard and physically demanding jobs, a defined benefit pension plan is key to the foundation for a financially secure and dignified retirement. This is why the BCTGM places the highest priority on preserving and strengthening our members’ pensions. Whether it is the highly-respected multi-employer B&C Pension Fund, covering nearly 110,000 active and retired members and which has paid out more than $12.5 billion in benefits since...

06 July, 2017