2018 July
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(Pictured above with the BCTGM group is U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Bimbo Bakeries USA Senior VP Organizational Development Lou Minella.) Following the massive "Protect Our Pensions" rally outside the Ohio State House in Columbus, Ohio last week, BCTGM International President is on Capitol Hill this week meeting with House and Senate members and key staff on the Pension funding issue. BCTGM Local 6 (Philadelphia) President/Business Agent Hank McKay and union member Danny Melendez accompanied President...

26 July, 2018

BCTGM retirees and members were among an estimated crowd of 15,000 unionized coal miners, teamsters, steelworkers and others who descended on the Ohio Statehouse July 12-13 to rally ahead of a congressional field hearing on Americaโ€™s pension crisis. BCTGM members brandished signs saying โ€œSave Our Pensionsโ€ and wore neon-green t-shirts reminding politicians, โ€œWe Earned It. We Deserve It.โ€ Hundreds of BCTGM members and retirees traveled to Columbus to participate in the two-day event including Locals 1...

13 July, 2018

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12 July, 2018

Thousands of pensioners and their families expected July 12 to call on Congress to fix Americaโ€™s Pension Crisis COLUMBUS โ€“ย Thousands of retirees fighting to preserve their pensions will rally on the grounds of the Ohio Statehouse, Thursday, July 12. BCTGM members from throughout the U.S. will join together with coal miners, truck drivers, steel workers and other pensioners who stand to their promised retirement income if the Joint Select Committee on the Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans...

11 July, 2018