Last year, a group of retirees collecting pension benefits from the financially struggling Central States Pension Fund were able to block big cuts in their monthly check that the fund said it needed to keep it afloat. Now, they’re trying to persuade Congress, unions, companies, pension funds, consumer groups and others to work together to come up with a way to put their fund and other multi-employer plans on sounder financial footing.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-BUSINESS","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-BUSINESS"};