Retired city workers protest new privatized healthcare plan
Retired municipal staff protested outside City Corridor Friday and refuse to go down devoid of a fight. “We are offended, we are pissed and we are not going to go absent,” claimed Sarah Shapiro, a United Federation of Teachers retiree.…
250,000 NYC municipal retirees face controversial switch to privatized health insurance
An arbitrator is directing New York City to rapidly move in advance with a plan to transfer some 250,000 municipal retirees from their present-day Medicare protection to a Medicare Gain prepare operated by a non-public insurance provider — regardless of…