David Blitzstein is special assistant for multiemployer plans in the Collective Bargaining Department of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW). He serves as trustee on six Taft-Hartley pension funds and a health fund, representing 500,000 plan participants. Blitzstein also advises UFCW leadership on employee benefit policy issues. Between 1990 and 2006, he served as director of the union's Negotiated Benefits Department, providing collective bargaining advice on health insurance and pension issues. He represents the UFCW as a member of the steering committee of the National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans, a lobbying group. Blitzstein is a member of the Employee Benefits Research Institute, a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and a director of the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and holds an M.S. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Retirement (In)Security: Can Americans Afford to Retire?

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