The American Rescue Plan delivers a $67 million boost to the Niagara County Laborers’ Local No. 91 Pension Plan, restoring full benefits for over 575 workers.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Niagara County Laborers’ Local No. 91 Pension Plan is receiving a $67 million pension fix from the American Rescue Plan, restoring full benefits for more than 575 union workers and their families.

In addition to providing materials to brick masons, workers under Local No. 91, a Niagara Falls-based union, are trained in asbestos removal, hazardous materials abatement, paving roads and runways, pipe installation, and bridge and building construction. 

Senator Chuck Schumer says Local No. 91 was projected to become insolvent and run out of money by the end of the calendar year.

“Over $67 million is now secured for the Niagara Falls-based Laborers’ Local No. 91 Pension Plan, which will ensure 575 union workers and their families across Western NY can retire in dignity. I made sure, as my first act as Majority Leader, to pass the American Rescue Plan with a key provision to deliver the pension relief to our union brothers and sisters and their families they have desperately needed and earned. New York was built by union workers, and I always will work with my union brothers and sisters to deliver the benefits they deserve,” said Senator Schumer.

Local 91 member Bruce Stenzel said the announcement comes as a relief to the members.

“We’ve put in decades of tough work on numerous job sites and in all kinds of weather, in the hopes of building a better future for ourselves and our families. When we heard our pensions were in trouble, it felt like the rug was being pulled out from under us,” said Stenzel.