A Healthy, Comfortable Life

The BCTGM has historically stood strong for secure retirements and affordable health care coverage for every worker and his or her family.

One of our goals continues to be to protect and preserve programs vital to the health and economic security of our union members. This includes important battles on Social Security, Medicare, affordable health care, prescription drug coverage and more.

This site is designed to provide general information on such topics.

A Secure Retirement

To build real retirement security, workers need secure pensions and savings in addition to Social Security.Yet employers have cut and eliminated real pensions and corporate scandals and the stock market plunge have battered workers' retirement savings. Strengthening Medicare. Protecting Social Security. Answers to your most basic questions and concerns including pension definitions, Social Security facts and myths, news and much more..

Health Care & Benefits

While most working Americans with health insurance rely on their employers for access to quality care, employers are increasingly shifting its rising cost to workers who struggle to pay enormous prescription drug prices, higher premiums, deductibles and co-payments. Managed-care plans and insurance companies make billions while denying care and refusing coverage. The United States spends more on health care than any other country in the world, yet nearly 41 million Americans lack medical coverage. What can be done? Learn what’s going on and how to make health care work for working families.

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