The news coming out of the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY (PSC-CUNY), the CUNY union, about the MLC's newly proposed plans for our citywide healthcare is NOT GOOD.
The UFT wanted the CBA approved prior to the new health care plan for a reason. If the new health care plan increases co-pays and/or deductibles this is effectively a hidden premium. The City pays less if the insured pays more!
It was a strategy to push the members into lower than inflation raises while indirectly increasing the cost of their health care.
The retirees have a chance to let in the sun light by becoming delegates for Retiree Advocate and voting out Unity. Then and only then, will UFT leadership be called to account.
I am still waiting for Randi Weingarten to defend forcing retirees and their dependents into a for-profit Medicare Advantage plan.
You would think that the National leader of a teachers union who speaks on so many national issues would want to address forcing retirees into a Medicare Advantage plan.
It seems to me, a retired UFT member, that benefits must be negotiated at the same time as salary. If one sees that the benefits are going to cost you more, you might bargain for higher salaries to cover that. Doesn’t seem right to take something away. After the bargaining period.
The UFT wanted the CBA approved prior to the new health care plan for a reason. If the new health care plan increases co-pays and/or deductibles this is effectively a hidden premium. The City pays less if the insured pays more!
It was a strategy to push the members into lower than inflation raises while indirectly increasing the cost of their health care.
The retirees have a chance to let in the sun light by becoming delegates for Retiree Advocate and voting out Unity. Then and only then, will UFT leadership be called to account.
I am still waiting for Randi Weingarten to defend forcing retirees and their dependents into a for-profit Medicare Advantage plan.
You would think that the National leader of a teachers union who speaks on so many national issues would want to address forcing retirees into a Medicare Advantage plan.
It seems to me, a retired UFT member, that benefits must be negotiated at the same time as salary. If one sees that the benefits are going to cost you more, you might bargain for higher salaries to cover that. Doesn’t seem right to take something away. After the bargaining period.