Getting to Yes: How Do Parties Resolve Contract Negotiations? See the proposed Memorandum of Agreement here. The proposed contract, officially the Memorandum of Agreement, is online, and ballots are arriving in schools, the ratification vote will take place in schools and the ballots will be counted by the American Arbitration Association.
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.
The health plan for NYC employees is negotiated between the MLC and the City, the UFT is one of the numberous unions, the MLC health plan for current employees will probably be many months in the future
in the MLC. In 2018 the MLC with the agreement of the UFT committed to 600 million dollars in health care savings to the City in perpetuity. All New York City retirees are being forced into a Medicare Advantage plan so the the MLC will receive millions of dollars into the Health Care Stabilization Fund
(See Independent Budget Office testimony October 28, 2021).
UFT members should not vote on the contract until the MLC releases the health insurance plan.
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
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.
The health plan for NYC employees is negotiated between the MLC and the City, the UFT is one of the numberous unions, the MLC health plan for current employees will probably be many months in the future
The UFT and DC 37 are the controlling unions
in the MLC. In 2018 the MLC with the agreement of the UFT committed to 600 million dollars in health care savings to the City in perpetuity. All New York City retirees are being forced into a Medicare Advantage plan so the the MLC will receive millions of dollars into the Health Care Stabilization Fund
(See Independent Budget Office testimony October 28, 2021).
UFT members should not vote on the contract until the MLC releases the health insurance plan.
To what end? DC 37 and PBA have ratified their contracts
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