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George Meany, a visionary who oversaw the merger of the AFL and the CIO and served as the combined organization’s first president, was a staunch believer in the power of pension plans. Since 2019, the NCCMP has honored an advocate of multiemployer retirement security with an award* in George Meany’s honor.

2026 – Mark McManus, General President, United Association
2025 – Edward M. Smith, Chairman and CEO, Ullico
2024 – Monte Tarbox, Former President, AFL-CIO Investment Trust Corporation
2022 – Joseph Sellers, General President, SMART
2021 – Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives & Charles E. Schumer, Majority Leader
2019 – Terence O’Sullivan, General President, LIUNA

* Prior to 2019, this award was known as the John L. Lewis Award.

The NCCMP is a non-profit, non-partisan organization advocating for multiemployer plans and their stakeholders across all major industries. Since 1975, we’ve worked to ensure multiemployer plans can deliver health and retirement benefits with minimal interference, engaging all branches of the federal government to represent the community’s interests.

Our mission is to ensure an environment in which multiemployer benefit plans can provide retirement security and health and welfare benefits to current and former working Americans and their families through negotiated benefits with minimal interference.

The NCCMP engages all levels of the federal government to advocate for the interests of multiemployer plans, sponsors, and participants. Recognizing that multiemployer plans have varied features, the NCCMP seeks the multiemployer community’s feedback when responses to new challenges require varied perspectives. Finally, we monitor legislative, regulatory, and legal developments at every stage on a non-partisan basis to ensure every member’s interests are considered.

The NCCMP identifies areas for growth to policymakers and serves as the go-to resource on multiemployer plans for Congress and the regulatory community. Our efforts have encouraged lawmakers and regulators to consider multiemployer plans’ interests, saving members hundreds of millions of dollars in regulatory and administrative costs.

The NCCMP proactively shapes employee benefit legislation. We maintain strong relationships in Congress by regularly testifying at hearings, advising staff, and submitting legislative proposals. With our members’ interests in mind, we support beneficial legislation, oppose harmful legislation, and advocate for new laws when needed to protect multiemployer plans and their participants.

The NCCMP engages with federal administrative agencies, including the Department of Labor, the Internal Revenue Service, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Health and Human Services, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the General Accountability Office, as they develop and implement regulations affecting multiemployer benefit plans. We voice the interests of the multiemployer community through formal and informal discussions, meetings, testimony, written submissions, and filing comments. Upon request, we also provide training assistance to help federal agencies better understand how multiemployer plans function.

The NCCMP submits amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs in virtually all Supreme Court cases affecting multiemployer plans and in many precedent-setting courts of appeals cases. When a decision is unfavorable to our members, the NCCMP seeks legislative remedies.

The NCCMP has a voluntary Board of Directors—representing plans, employers, and unions—a Steering Committee to provide technical expertise, and a Working Committee to perform the day-to-day work of the organization.

Our membership consists of plans, sponsoring organizations, technical advisors, local councils, regional councils, district councils, national multiemployer plans, union locals, local employer associations, and companies.

Our members, plans, and contributing employers represent every major segment of the economy, including agriculture, aviation, building and construction, bakery and confectionary, entertainment, healthcare, hospitality, longshore, manufacturing, mining, retail, and wholesale food, service, sports, steel, and trucking.

The NCCMP depends on membership dues for its program income.

Both organizations serve important, but different, purposes. The IFEBP is an educational non-profit organization that works with all types of employee benefit plans, including corporate and public sector plans. The IFEBP’s tax status disallows it from participating in political activity.

Conversely, the NCCMP is the only chartered social welfare organization to advocate specifically for the multiemployer community. We are permitted to participate in political activity. The NCCMP is your voice in Congress and among regulatory agencies with jurisdiction over multiemployer plans. We keep you up to date on laws, regulations, and casework that affects the multiemployer community.

Plans, plan sponsors, and fund professionals interested in membership can apply online or mail a request.

Yes. The Department of Labor has held that membership in the NCCMP is a legitimate expenditure for a tax-exempt employee benefit fund.