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Date: August 23, 2023 at 11:12:06 AM EDT
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Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Key union pushing workers to hassle pols over Medicare bill
BY CHRIS SOMMERFELDT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
The city's largest municipal union is text-blasting its members urging them
to bombard City Council members with critical phone calls if they support a
bill that would guarantee traditional Medicare coverage for retired municipal
employees, the Daily News has learned.
The text action from DC37 is part of the politically influential union's
support for an effort by Mayor Adams' administration to make a cost-cutting,
privatized Medicare Advantage plan the only health insurance option available
for the city's 250,000 municipal retirees.
The texts, copies of which were obtained by The News, take aim at Intro 1099,
a bill penned by Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron that would require the
city to offer its retired workers a premium-free traditional Medicare plan.
Most of the city's retirees currently benefit from such a Medicare structure,
consisting of the universal federal program and a city-subsidized Medigap
supplement.
