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Attention All Members of Local 810!

As discussed in our meetings last year and in order to increase attendance and participation of ALL Local 810 members, we will be conducting our meetings on Sunday mornings throughout 2020. We hope to see all those that couldn’t attend our weekday evening meetings due to scheduling conflicts, overtime distribution, family responsibilities and or NYC traffic. We will have coffee, breakfast and stickers. If you’re a Shop Steward, make sure to attend!!! 

I was skeptical of unions. Then I joined one.

“Good organizing and outreach from colleagues helped change my mind about the need for a union at Vox Media specifically. But so did approaching the research on unions the same way I would any topic in my reporting: by looking at the data and talking to experts.

Research suggests that unions have their biggest effects from density. When more people are part of a union, unions don’t just boost their workers’ wages and benefits; they also lift up those they don’t represent.”

Continue reading here:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/8/19/20727283/unions-good-income-inequality-wealth

Pension News

Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., the new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a longtime proponent of increasing retirement savings, introduced his first bill of the new congressional session Wednesday that focuses on aiding multiemployer pension plans: https://www.pionline.com/article/20190110/ONLINE/190119982/bipartisan-bill-looks-to-help-struggling-multiemployer-plans

In its first action in the 116th Congress, the House Ways and Means Committee introduced a bipartisan bill that would channel loans to collectively bargained pensions destined for insolvency: https://www.benefitspro.com/2019/01/14/rehabilitation-for-multiemployer-pensions-act-introduced-in-house/

Local 810 proudly offers People’s Alliance Federal Credit Union (PAFCU) as an added Benefit!

PAFCU is a not-for-profit financial cooperative. They exist solely to serve their members. That’s why we are able to offer our union members better-than bank rates on loans and deposits, with no fees to open or maintain accounts.  

You only need $5.00 to open a Savings Account and no minimum to open a Checking Account!  PAFCU’s goal is to build and grow relationships with every credit union member and provide them with a better way to bank, save, invest, set financial goals and achieve overall financial wellness. As a preferred member, you will receive exclusive benefits such as:

• Savings and checking accounts opened with as little as $5.00

• Direct deposit and automatic payroll deductions

• Lower credit union rates on loans and credit cards

• eServices such as online banking, mobile and text message banking, and a Mobile App

• On site financial education seminars

• CO-OP Network with nearly 30,000 ATMs and more than 5,000 CO-OP shared branches, giving you more direct, surcharge-free access to your money than most traditional bank customers do.

• And much more!

125 Wireless Blvd. • Hauppauge, NY 11788 • www.pafcu.org • (631) 434-3500

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