The Pension Protection Act will be enacted effective January 1, 2008. This law has the potential to negatively impact your lump sum pension disbursement when you retire. Another expense to consider before you retire is the cost of retiree medical expenses and how that will impact you and your spouse when you retire.

What you need to know about Company Doctors and holding them accountable. Have you been treated fairly by the Company doctor?

You have the right to file a complaint against a doctor, physicians assistant or even a nurse.  Most times these professionals handle themselves with dignity and respect for their patients, however there are times that particular health care professionals, with an agenda, cross the line.

EPUTThis is one of only a few such
initiatives in the country, EPUT is helping to give participants the
necessary skills and knowledge to fill jobs in an industry where the
demand for skilled workers has increased steadily as the current
workforce retires.

Denzel Washington and his family visited
the troops at Brook Army Medical Center, in
San Antonio,Texas (BAMC) the other day.

Local 369 Members in New Bedford partner with the New Bedford Police Department to place Flags on grave stones of Veterans.

Mathis School ChildrenLocal 369 sponsored 32 deserving children from Boston’s Mather School to a special all-day outing June 5.The Mather School , located at 1 Parish Street, Dorchester, is America ’s oldest elementary school, with 486 students, and seven programs in place for gifted children. Larry Walsh, Community Liaison Officer for UWUA Local 369, said that the union had approached the school with the idea of rewarding “deserving” children.