"The composite legislation does not go nearly far enough to ensure the retirement security of our members and other participants in multiemployer pension plans. The draft provides inadequate funding for composite plans and weakens the funding base for existing (legacy) plans ... Protecting the benefits of workers in legacy plans would require deep cuts to active workers in composite plans in times of market instability.... [C]omposite plans are exempt from paying PBGC premiums ... When combined with plan failures, the PBGC will be saddled with significant new liabilities at the same time an already underfunded multiemployer insurance program is depleted of funds."  MORE >>