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The NUCPP works to ensure pension funds of hardworking Americans remain solvent and beneficial to all members, retired and active.  NUCPP services are steadfast in the concerted effort to educate, inform and advocate for accountability, reform and restoration of multiemployer pension funds. NUCPP services exist to make a difference and develop new standards to safeguard Central States Pension Funds and all multiemployer pension funds.  NUCPP promotional services promote public awareness of the need to protect and reform pensions to ensure solvency for multiemployer defined pension fund participants.

10.13.23 #20 TDU RECOGNIZES NUCPP

#20 NUCPP AT WORK!

OCTOBER 13, 2023

TDU RECOGNIZES NUCPP

Pension Warriors,

Thank you to Mr. Ken Paff, TDU President, who spoke recently at our NUCPP 3rd Annual Meeting and posted an acknowledgment of our continuing work in the TDU Newsletter. We appreciate the pension work initiated by TDU and their continuing efforts to protect the benefits of active workers.  

 NUCPP’S NEW MISSION: PROTECT AND EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY

  • The National United Committee to Protect Pensions (NUCPP) held its 3rd Annual Meeting in Memphis on October 4, 2023

  •  NUCPP’S NEW MISSION: PROTECT AND EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY

    • The National United Committee to Protect Pensions (NUCPP) held its 3rd Annual Meeting in Memphis on October 4, 2023.
      After the MEPRA law (aimed at cutting pensions) was passed in 2014, the NUCPP was formed by a grassroots movement resulting from threatened cuts to multiemployer pension plans ranging from 50%-70%. As TDU initiated the pension movement, Alex Adams and Mike Walden began the grassroots movement, eventually becoming the NUCPP. The Pension Rights Center, IBT, and others were also very effective in the pension fight.

After hundreds of trips to Washington, DC by the retirees, and thousands of emails and letters, the multiemployer pension plans were saved when President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act/Butch Lewis Act in March 2021, affecting more than 10.1 million Americans. It was a historical time for retirees and active workers.

Although our pensions have been saved, the NUCPP expanded its Mission Statement to include watching over retirement security issues, including pensions, Social Security, and Medicare. We have partnered with the Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA), Pension Rights Center (PRC), AFL-CIO, IBT, and others with the same goals to protect and improve our hard-earned benefits.

For more information or to join the NUCPP, please visit www.nucpp.org or email dmv.nucpp@gmail.com.

—Dana Vargo, Director of Communications/Secretary

NUCPP Board of Directors

Dana M. Vargo

Director of Communications

National United Committee to Protect Pensions

dmv.nucpp@gmail.com




Dana Vargo