Helpful Retiree Organizations

Below is a list of retiree organizations that have been instrumental in preserving and expanding the rights of retirees. By helping retirees assert their rights, these organizations have had a significant impact on the lives of millions of retirees. Read below to learn about or become involved with these organizations.

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AARP
Mission: To enhance the quality of life for all as they age. AARP leads positive social change and delivers value to members through information, advocacy and service.

Aetna Retirees Association
Mission: To involve retirees in protecting the medical, dental, vision, prescription drug and life insurance benefits as well as the pensions that Aetna committed itself to, so that Aetna retirees may live in retirement as Aetna promised they would.

Alliance@IBM
Mission: To preserve and improve rights and benefits of employees at IBM. Alliance@IBM also strive towards restoring management's respect for the individual and the value we bring to the company as employees. Our mission is to make our voice heard with IBM management, shareholders, government and the media.

Alliance for Retired Americans
Mission: To ensure social and economic justice and full civil rights for all citizens so that they may enjoy lives of dignity, personal and family fulfillment and security.

Allstate Agents Pension and Benefits Action Coalition
Mission: To right the wrong of frozen pensions and suspended benefits to the same people who do the same jobs now as independent contractors that they did for many years as employees. To learn more about this organization,

Association of Ameritech / SBC Retirees
Mission: To preserve and enhance pension, healthcare, and other benefits earned by retirees while employed by SBC and its predecessor and/or successor companies.

Association of BellTel Retirees
Mission: To advocate for the more than 220,000 Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, GTE and VERIZON retirees. The Association also represents active employees regarding retiree issues, such as cash balance plan conversions and recently announced termination of management pension and healthcare benefits.

Association of Former Pan Am Employees, Inc.
Mission: To deal with the issue of pension benefits for some 85,000 former employees of both Pan Am and National Air Lines.

Association of Raytheon Retirees
Mission: to be the voice of all Raytheon retirees to assure that pension and retirement benefits are provided as promised and to maintain and improve these benefits to the maximum extent possible.

Association of US West Retirees (AUSWR)
Mission: To represent its more than 40,000 Qwest Communications retirees and surviving spouses by helping ensure that each retiree receives every benefit earned as a result of their long service to the company.

AT&T Concerned Employees Retiree Council on Retirement Protection (ACER)
Mission: To preserve and protect pension and retirement benefits for AT&T's family of employees and retirees through education and communication.

BellSouth Retirees Association
Mission: To improve communications among the retirees of BellSouth and to offer a platform where the voices of BellSouth retirees can come together as one. The BellSouth Retirees Association aims to will get the message of protecting promised benefits before the leaders of BellSouth and demand they listen.

Benefits Restoration, Inc.
Mission: To ensure that fair and equitable benefits are available for all retirees.

Central States Pension Improvement Committee
Mission: To work together to fight the pension cuts, win stronger benefits, and end unfair reemployment rules related to the Central States Pension Plan.

Coalition of Retired Employees of the Ohio Education Association
Mission: To protect the rights and benefits of the retired employees of the Ohio Education Association.

CWA-CUTW Retired Members Club
Mission: To provide members with information about medical and other benefits.

CWA Retired Member's Council
Mission: To focus on the critical issues facing retirees by allowing retirees to have input into key retiree programs as they are shaped through contract negotiations and or legislation. The Council achieves this by representing the concerns of retired members before and during contract negotiations.

Detroit-Edison Alliance of Retirees
Mission: To protect against the erosion of benefits for retired employees.

DukeEmployees.com
Mission: To raise awareness about cash balance plans among American workers, specifically Duke Energy employees, former employees and retirees.

Ex-Partners of Servicemembers for Equality (EX-POSE)
 Mission: To provide information to spouses and ex-partners of military service members about their rights, benefits, interests, and future.

Gray Panthers
Mission: To work for social and economic justice and peace for all people. Vision: Create a humane society that puts the needs of people over profits, responsibility over power, and democracy over institutions.

IBM Retirees
Mission: To provide a service to IBM employees and friends, investors, and others who don't have the time to follow the large volume of postings on the Yahoo! clubs.

IBM Employee Benefits Action Coalition
Mission: To provide IBM employees, IBM retirees and other interested or affected parties with increased awareness of and education about significant changes in IBM pension  and benefit plans.

IUE-CWA Local 201
Mission: To win better wages and benefits for its members, to take the lead in the civil rights and women's movement, and to seek stronger safety, health and other laws affecting workers.

IUE-CWA Local 201 Retirees Council
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Johns Manville Retirees Association
Mission: To the protect, preserve, and improve retiree benefits for its approximately 2,500 dues paying members.

Lucent Retirees Organization
Mission: To address the interests of the 127,000 individuals covered under the Lucent pension plan by leveraging its members' Lucent stock ownership power, their long-standing and influential relationships not only with Lucent but with Lucent's customers and their influence with lawmakers and regulators.

Moore Retiree Group
Mission: To serve its members by presenting factual, balanced, and accurate coverage of major issues and events.

National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE)
Mission: to protect and improve the retirement benefits of federal retirees, employees and their families.

National Alliance of "Brown" Employees And Retirees Inc. (NABER)
Mission: To share information, promote the interests, and assist with the challenges of being a current or former UPS hourly employee.

National Association of Prudential Retirees (NAPRI)
Mission: To communicate and share information about pension and health insurance benefits with Prudential retirees, employees and vested participants.

National Association of Retired and Veteran Railway Employees
Mission: To protect and preserve the Railroad Retirement System for retired and current railway workers, their spouses, widows and widowers.

National Caucus and Center on the Black Aged
Mission: To improve the quality of life for elderly African Americans and low-income minorities.

National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
Mission: To protect, preserve, promote, and ensure the financial security, health, and the well being of current and future generations of maturing Americans.

National Retiree Legislative Network (NRLN)
Mission: To identify and rally support for federal legislation that guarantees fair and equitable treatment of retirees regardless of the type of benefit or program involved. NRLN believes that every working American should know, unequivocally, that the pension and benefits that he or she were promised and worked for will be available when he or she retires and throughout retirement.

National Senior Citizens Law Center
Mission: To advocate nationwide to promote the independence and well-being of low-income elderly and disabled Americans.

Pension Preservation Network
Mission: To provide timely information and improved communication among retired and working individuals concerning pension plans and issues, motivating them to proactively safeguard promised pension benefits.

ProtectSeniors.Org
Mission: To pass H.R. 1322 (The Emergency Retiree Health Benefits Protection Act), a bill that would make it illegal for a corporation to rescind the health benefits retirees have earned and were promised in lieu of salary or hourly wages, and vacations.

People United Providing Service, Inc. (PUPS, Inc.)
 Mission: To help UPS retirees ascertain their benefits and services. Since 1995, PUPS has helped many individuals with great success.

Southern New England Telephone Retirees Association (SNET)
Mission: To ensure that SNET retirees are not forgotten when it comes to the retirement benefits promised to them at retirement. The group also advocates for cost-of-living adjustments for everyone living on fixed retirement incomes.

TelCo Retirees Association
Mission: To protect, enhance and assure the continuation of retirees' pensions and other benefits promised by the company at the time of retirement.

Textron Systems Retirees Association, Inc.
Mission: To serve the interests and needs of current and future retirees of the Textron Systems Division of Textron Corporation by ensuring that members receive the retirement benefits to which they are entitled.

 

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