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Welcome to the official website for the Association of Benefit Administrators Inc. Founded in 1961, the Association conducts educational conferences, sponsors a newsletter, and hosts luncheon meetings with guest speakers on many topics important to our members.
For information on labor and union programs and workshops at Cornell University, click here.
For information on educational materials on labor studies and labor history provided by the American Labor Studies Center, click here.
For information on United Benefits & Pension Services, a national pension administration and benefit services company specializing in serving the Taft-Hartley multi-employer plan market, click here.
Thomas J. Mackell, Jr. on Foxbusiness.com - view the video clip of Thomas J. Mackell, Jr. discussed the auto bailout, the economy and the pension crisis on Foxbusiness.com by clicking on the link below.
www.foxbusiness.com/video/index.html
Click on the link below to navigate to the Medicare Rights Center "Dear Marci" Weekly Newsletter - your trusted source for Medicare answers.
http://www.medicarerights.org/medicare-answers/dear-marci.php
The ABA is pleased to offer the Rx Well Card discount presciption program. Click on the link below to print your card and take it to your pharmacy to take advantage of discounts on prescriptions.
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Click on the link to the right for prescription drug pricing: cashcard.lc.healthtrans.com/Pages/DrugSearch.aspx
Click on the link below for the pharmacy locator:
cashcard.lc.healthtrans.com/Pages/PharmacyLocator.aspx
Following are Frequently Asked Questions regarding the Rx Well Card program:
www.assocbenadmin.com/uploads/file/rx_well_card_faq.pdf
Click on the link below to read interview with Thomas J. Mackell, Jr. with the Pittsburgh Post Gazette:
www.post-gazette.com/pg/10259/1087875-28.stm
Click on the link below to navigate to the PENSION RIGHTS CENTER website:
Click on the link below to navigate to article by Dr. Thomas J. Mackell, Jr. titled 'The Growing Arteriosclerosis of America's Political Institutions'
Click here to visit the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans website.
Labor Leader Observations
“The materialism of the labor movement has never appealed to me. It is the idealism of the labor movement which has been the inspiration of my life. It has not been alone to raise the worker’s wage and shorten his hours; it has not been alone to improve housing conditions, not to better his educational facilities; nor even to give him access to realms of art and science from which has too long been debarred. No: What I have striven to gain for the workers of America and, so far as I could of the world, is that bright and better and happier day for which you and I have been working. My endeavor has been to enable to worker to attain the complete human idea.”
Samuel Gompers
“Because of the wage and wealth gap, America is becoming edgier, angrier and meaner. Until we ease the growing gap in work, wages, and wealth, we will be reading more dispatches from a wounded nation – more militia movements, more bombing, more hate crimes, and more of the quiet anguish of Americans losing their sense of a common destiny and a common purpose. America will become more like the trouble spots where we send our sons and daughters to keep the peace.
So what can we do about it? Of course, American business must change and American government must change. But American labor must also change. That is why I ran for President of AFL-CIO, and that is why I won. Here’s the truth: The weakness of labor encourage employers to take the low road. And only by rebuilding our strength can we bring American business back to the high road of wages. That is why I am challenging every union to put millions of dollars into organizing from the sunbelt to the rustbelt and from health care to high tech. That is why we are pouring money and people into rebuilding our grassroots political strength.
‘What does labor want?’
‘More.’ That’s what Samuel Gompers said when he was asked nearly a century ago, ‘What does labor want?’ Many of you know his words well. ‘More schoolhouses and less jails,’ he replied, ‘more books and less arsenals, more learning and less vice, more constant work and less crime, more leisure and less greed, more justice and less revenge.’ It was an eloquent statement of values trade unionists still hold dear. And what do working Americans want as we draw close to a new century? What we want is to work together to build an America that holds true to the values we honor in our homes and in our houses of worship.
Our idea of a just society is one in which honest labor raises a standard of living for all, rather than enormous wealth for a few. And our notion of a moral nation is one which cares for its young, its old and its poor and leaves the rich to fend for themselves.
John J. Sweeney
October 3, 1996
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