What is the Welfare Fund?
…….The Welfare Fund Board of Trustees appointed Diane D’Onofrio Delgado as Fund Manager, effective June 1, 2009. She succeeds Nick Pesecreta who has retired. The Welfare Fund provides dental, optical, hearing, benefits and life, accidental death, dismemberment and long term disability insurance for FUSE members and retirees. In January 1979, following the formation of the New Rochelle FUSE, the New Rochelle FUSE Welfare Fund (originally established in 1968 by UTNR), was expanded. The Welfare Fund was created to provide various benefits that would not otherwise be afforded to City School District Employees. The funds to provide those benefits are derived from the Board of Education through the process of collective bargaining and are strictly separated from all other union funds. The Fund benefits that members enjoy are the result of the success of the FUSE negotiations on behalf of its members. Presently, the Fund provides dental, optical, hearing, life, accidental death, dismember
