Harry Reid (NV)
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney
Rep. Charlie Rangel (NY)
Rep. Tuesday afternoon gives
participants an opportunity to go to Capitol Hill to meet with their own
Representatives and Senators to lobby for their key issues: Davis-Bacon
protection, Infrastructure funding, Social Security, pension protection,
health care and workers' rights to organize. In addition, the BCTD works to resolve
jurisdictional disputes within the construction trades and builds solidarity
by encouraging the formation of local building trades councils.

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Annual Legislative Conference
draws state and local labor leaders from its 15 affiliate construction trades
from all 50 states. The Airlines
Division represents 42 Locals 59 labor contracts .

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Providing an increase in permitted contributions. The APA
currently represents over 13,000 pilots .

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Voinovich (OH)
Rep. These actions demonstrate that companies must try to protect the
retirement benefits that have been promised to their people. Hutto-Blake James C. It represents more than
25,000 Flight Attendants at American Airlines, including 4,240 Flight
Attendants who have been on furlough following the events of 9/11.

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Nick Rahall (WV)
Sen. For more information, visit the IAM website at
http://www. To do this,
American must continue to work collaboratively with all stakeholders under its
Turnaround Plan to return to profitability. Also, several hundred American Airlines pilots
are on full-time military leave of absence serving in the armed forces.

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This year 's events focus on
BLUEPRINT: 2005, UNITED FOR PROGRESS, involving labor and economic issues
which impact 3 million building and construction workers across America. Sullivan
Sen. Brian Higgins (NY)
Sen.

3. The
union's Web site address is http://www.

Information about APFA
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) is the largest
independent Flight Attendant union in the nation.org .

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This also underscores the need
for reasonable pension reform legislation that better and more fairly protects
employee retirement benefits by making it more affordable and flexible for
companies to fund defined benefit plans.

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Place: Washington Hilton and Towers, 1919 Connecticut Ave. These proposals, as put forward by President John Sweeney
and Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka, are expected to win support from a
substantial majority of the AFL-CIO Executive Council. Arpey Captain Ralph Hunter
Chairman, President and CEO President
American Airlines Allied Pilots Association

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Setting reasonable interest rates to determine plan liabilities.

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-AFL-CIO is expecting over 3000 representing trade unions from all 50
states to attend its 2004 Legislative Conference . Sullivan is the President of the BCTD,
elected in 2000. Thomas
Buffenbarger announced today that working with other International Presidents
at the AFL-CIO Executive Council, they will come forward with a bold mandate
for change for the AFL-CIO.org .

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Mary Landrieu (LA)
Sen.

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Frank LoBiondo (NJ)
Rep.
Created in 1908, the BCTD has helped its 15 affiliated building trades
unions to make job sites safer, deliver apprenticeship and journey-level
training , organize new workers, support legislation that affects working
families, and assist in securing improved wages, hours and working conditions
through collective bargaining.
Action by the AFL-CIO is expected later today on a series of resolutions
that lay the groundwork for real change . Maintaining the flexibility to continue defined benefit plans as an
effective means to provide retirement security."
When the men and women of American Airlines consensually restructured
their wages, work rules and benefits in 2003 to deliver the savings needed to
avoid bankruptcy at the time, they chose to do so in a way that allowed them
to preserve their defined benefit pension plans.

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Monday afternoon of the conference offers workshops and informational
forums on key labor-related legislation and issues.

American Airlines the Allied Pilots Association the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and the Transport Workers Union Issue Joint Statement Regar

6. The furloughs began shortly after the
September 11, 2001 attacks.

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U.S. Senators Reid Mikulsi Obama Biden + Salazar Featured Speakers at Building + Construction Trades 2005 Legislative Conference April 18 19 20 2005

Steve LaTourette (OH)
Sen. This year over 3,000 are expected to participate . It's
Frontline Program encourages all construction union members and their families
to participate in the electoral process and help elect candidates at the state
and national level who stand by them and for them between elections.alliedpilots.org .

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John Edwards (NC)

Background
The Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, coordinates
activity and provides resources to 15 affiliated trades unions in the
construction industry.
The Building Trades Dept.

Supporting the concept that benefit plans be charged risk adjusted
premiums by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).

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Washington, DC
Dates: APRIL 18, 19, 20, 2005

PRESS + MEDIA WELCOME TO ATTEND ALL PLENARY SESSIONS
Media Credential Pick-Up: Available at Press Table, Conference
Registration 8 AM - Noon daily

GUEST SPEAKER SCHEDULES:
Monday, April 18, 2005 9:00 - 11:30 AM
BCTD President Edward C.
The 3 day conference consists of morning plenary sessions where attendees
hear from Congressional leaders about the legislation and issues that concern
them, their members and their industry.

Power to Win Incentive to Grow

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It has 386 state, local and provincial councils in the
United States and Canada. is a politically active organization.

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President International Executive Vice President
Association of Professional Director, Air Transport Division
Flight Attendants Transport Workers Union of America,
AFL -CIO

Information about APA
Founded in 1963, APA is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas .

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WASHINGTON, The Building and Construction Trades
Dept.
"Democracy will prevail and we will have cleared the decks for both an
aggressive organizing and an equally aggressive political strategy for the
years ahead," said Buffenbarger. Visit
online at http://www.

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The IAM is one of the largest industrial unions in North America,
representing nearly 650,000 active and retired members in dozens of
industries.goiam.
"We also support legislation that would provide pension relief to
companies that freeze their plans through the collective bargaining process,
in accordance with the principles above, rather than terminating them in
bankruptcy.apfa.

Information about TWU
Founded in 1934, the TWU represents nearly 125,000 workers in the nation 's
transportation industries, including 55,000 workers in the airline and
government service industry in virtually all Class and Crafts.

Category includes organizations and institutions which advise on, lobby in the area of, or do research on labor relations.

This category includes updates to relevant law: judicial and administrative.

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Barack Obama (IL)
DNC Chairman Howard Dean
Rep.

The Building and Construction Trades Dept.
"We are making decisions today that will give us the power to win and
provides real incentives to grow, " said Buffenbarger.org.

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Melissa Bean (IL)
Sen. Ken Salazar (CO)
Former Sen.

These resolutions will be the product
of democratic votes. FORT WORTH, Texas, Today, American Airlines and
the presidents of the three labor unions representing AA pilots, flight
attendants, aircraft maintenance technicians, plant maintenance employees,
fleet service employees, ground service employees, technical specialists,
flight dispatchers, stock clerks, flight simulator technicians, ground school,
flight simulator and pilot simulator instructors at American
jointly issued a statement regarding defined benefit pension plan legislation:
"We support pension reform that does not discriminate based on the credit
rating of the plan sponsor, and that better protects employees' retirement
benefits by making it more flexible and affordable for companies to fund them,
by:
1. The Airline Division
website is http://www.

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2. There are currently 2,819 American
Airlines pilots on furlough .

Information about AA
American Airlines is the world's largest airline, with a fleet of over
700 aircraft serving more than 250 cities in over 40 countries with more than
3,800 daily flights.

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WASHINGTON, International Association of
Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) International President R. Reasonably extending the number of years companies would have to make
up the unfunded portions of their plans. And, despite difficult
economic challenges, the company continues to meet its pension funding
obligations.

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Barbara Mikulski (MD)

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:00 - 11:30 AM
James McConnell, California
Rep. Joseph Biden (DE)

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:00 - 11:30 AM
Sen. Providing simpler, better, and more timely disclosure of important
pension plan data.

5.

"We support a ban on preferential funding of Supplemental Executive
Retirement Programs while the minimum contributions are not being made to the
corporate defined benefit plans. American employs over 85,000 people worldwide .

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