Welcome to the Association of BellTel Retirees, Inc. which advocates for more than 230,000 Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, GTE, MCI, Idearc,and Verizon Union and Management 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. Many retirees from throughout corporate America have been set adrift by their former employers. The 100,000 members of the Association of BellTel Retirees have banded together to fight such corporate and executive arrogance and lack of respect for the retiree and active employee body. We believe that with all retirees acting together we can achieve a COLA on our pension and, through congressional action, guarantee the healthcare benefits that have been chiseled away over the last 20 years through passage of H.R. 1322.