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Keith Firestone's avatar

How can you vote on a contract without knowing what your health insurance plan is?

If the health insurance plan increases the deductibles and/or co-insurance or co-pays your cash compensation is meaningfully reduced. If your network is more limited and you need an out-of-network hospital or provider your compensation has been meaningfully degraded.

You need to know before you vote not after.

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The UFT membership must send a message to the City and the MLC that health insurance is at the core of their compensation and they cannot vote on a contract without reviewing the health insurance plan that could affect their health and the health of their dependents.

The UFT members did not cede their rights when DC 37 and the PBA ratified their contracts without knowing what their health care will be.

Did their leadership raise this issue when they voted? No. They advised them to ratify the contract. Did the leadership advise them that they committed 600 million dollars of recurring health care savings to the City?

The UFT membership should vote no until their leadership and the MLC shows them the health insurance plan then they can make an informed decision--not after the contract is ratified

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