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About The ABA
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Meet Our Board Members
Charles Hamilton - President
Consultant, Multiemployer Benefit Plans
Robin Modzelewski - Co-Secretary
Teamsters Welfare Fund of Northern NJ Local 723 Fund Administrator (retired)
Lauri LoQuercio, Director of Events
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Tom Omiatek - Vice President
NYSA-ILA Welfare Fund, Executive Director
Rhonda Murray - Co-Secretary
Executive Director of 1199c Benefits, Pension and Nursing Home Pension Funds
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Karleen O'Neill - Treasurer
Sheet Metal Workers Local 25 Funds Administrator
Damien Arnold - Director At Large
CWA Local 1180 Benefit Funds Fund Administrator
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Publications
Newsletters
January, 2026 Newsletter
Happy New Year! What will 2026 bring to retirement and health & welfare funds and those of us who administer them or work with those who do? It should be an eventful year, to say the least.
May 2026 Newsletter
We hope you enjoy our May newsletter. It features articles based on the three outstanding presentations from our April lunch meeting. Although you can garner much information from our newsletter, we highly recommend attending our meetings in person.
June 2025 Newsletter
OUR NEXT MEETING IS Tuesday, September 16, 2025 LUNCH SPONSOR: Harsh Shah Amwins Dear ABA Members, With Labor Day just around the corner, I’m reminded that this holiday marks the unofficial end of the summer season and, in a shout out to our school days, the...
Articles
The Critical Importance of Labor Leadership in Transformative Health Care Innovation
The Critical Importance of Labor Leadership in Transformative Health Care Innovation:Labor & Allied Employers utilizing their power to redesign Health Care Delivery - Improving Healthcare and Reducing Costs! Dear ABA Members, Please see below letter from the...
ABA Joins in Successful Appeal to the United States Supreme Court
ABA’s Support Helps Preserve Investor Rights in Supreme Court Opinion The Board of the ABA informs you of an important development that impacts the rights of benefits funds as investors in public markets. Several months ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear...
What About Carol? She’s Doing Better!
By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Regular readers of this blog will know to whom I am referring when I mention the name, Carol. I started following Carol’s saga from late 2017 to early 2018 and first wrote about her in June 2018, when I was...
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