The General Pension Plan provides retirement and other benefits to more than 8,000 current and former full-time officers and employees of Local Unions and participating Related Organizations of the International Union of Operating Engineers in the United States and Canada. Participants of the Plan are representatives of operating engineers which include heavy equipment operators, mechanics, surveyors, stationary engineers within building and industrial complexes and service industries, nurses and other health industry workers, public employees employed in various occupations, and several positions within the petrochemical industry.