The MCAA/Horizon Pension Inventory 2014 Edition will soon be released to help MCAA members' Congressional outreach for multiemployer pension reform in Congress this year. Advocacy efforts are now shifting to all Senators, and particularly those on the Senate Finance, Health Education and Pensions (HELP), and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committees. Members are urged to stress to Senators on all three committees that the Solutions Not Bailouts legislative reform proposal is sound pension, federal fiscal, and government operations policy. It preserves and strengthens multiemployer plans for participants and contributing employers, avoids the need for federal financial support for failing plans, and helps get the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) off the government's most endangered agencies list.  All MCA local affiliate members and their employees, your local UA leaders and other affected employer associations are urged to reach out to their lawmakers.  Ask for their support and a meeting before the general elections using Voter Voice at http://www.mcaa.org/advocacy.  Tell lawmakers ... 

"We can't wait until 2015 or later for sound remedial action. Any further delay in enactment is a very significant delay in actuarial terms as participants age; employers drop out; the cost of contributions, benefits and plan administration increases steeply for the contributing employers that remain in the plan; the risk of an asset return reversal grows sharply; and PBGC's looming deficit becomes more inevitable.  The SNB proposal is well conceived, broadly supported by labor and management and given great credence by PBGC and other experts.  The retirement security of a great many participants and retirees in the state depend on your sound, prudent, and timely remedial action this year."