New York City’s 250,000 retired municipal workers are facing the conversion of our traditional Medicare coverage to a privately managed Medicare Advantage plan. It turns out that negotiations to achieve this change have been going on in secret for three years. The bargaining agent is the Municipal Labor Committee (MLC), which includes nearly 100 city unions. Word of the
The trade union of the City University of New York, the largest urban university in the United States, adopted a resolution opposing the government's "belligerence" toward China and calling on other labor bodies to build a movement against a Cold War with China.
New York City municipal unions promote massive cuts to health care for retirees
An agreement between New York City and the Metropolitan Labor Committee (MLC), a coalition of city trade unions, will transfer health care benefits from Medicare to Medicare Advantage, a privately run, for-profit plan, for over 250,000 retired city workers and their dependents. Workers affected include teachers, faculty and staff of the City University of New York (CUNY), sanitation workers, housing, parks, and administrative workers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and retired workers from many other job categories.
Global history instructor Alis Anasal prepares to leave West Brooklyn Community High School after the school’s principal announced to students, teachers and staff that the school would be closing “until further notice” in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020.(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
New York union protests racist austerity
By G. Dunkel posted on May 7, 2021
New York City
A New York State budget that underfunds education was denounced as racist austerity by union members and allies at an April 27 rally and march in Manhattan.
The Professional Staff Congress-CUNY rallies, with president Barbara Bowman on the bullhorn, New York City, April 27. WW Photo: G.Dunkel
Attending were over 150 members of the Professional Staff Congress of City University of New York, members of DC37 working at CUNY and members of NYC for Change. DC37, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), is New York City’s largest public employee union.
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Eric Adams returned again to his native Queens today, locking up two more endorsements in a borough that could make or break his mayoral campaign.
State Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr. and Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer Amato backed Adams today during an event in Rockaway Beach another notch on a Queens endorsement belt that already includes a slew of elected officials, particularly in voter-rich Southeast Queens where Adams recently opened a new campaign headquarters.