Media Advisory: Halloween Horror Press Conference to Tell City Council Members: DO NOT Amend Administrative Code §12-126

 

Media Advisory For October 27, 2022

Halloween Horror Press Conference

to Tell City Council Members:

DO NOT Amend Administrative Code §12-126

New York City municipal retirees have been fighting for over a year to prevent the City from moving us out of our excellent, traditional Medicare-with-supplemental-insurance plan and into a lesser, privatized Medicare Advantage plan. Last March, a lawsuit found that the City's attempt to financially penalize retirees who refused to switch plans was a violation of city code. In response, the City is now pressuring the City Council to change the law that protects us - NY City Administrative Code §12-126. The City's proposed amendment would not only lift retirees' health benefit protections, but would leave the City's active workforce without protections as well, leaving us all vulnerable to a wholesale diminishment of our current health benefits.

We will greet and educate our City Council members as they enter City Hall on October 27th. Halloween is scary and fun, but there is nothing fun about losing our hard-earned health benefits! We will let the City Council know that amending NY City Administrative Code §12-126 would be a real horror show, for the city, and its workers.

Come to the press conference and hear experts and elected officials talk about the proposed amendment to the city code and explain why Medicare Advantage Plans are bad for our health.

Confirmed Speakers:

Jumaane Williams, Public Advocate for the City of New York

City Council Member Christopher Marte, District 1

City Council Member Alexa Aviles, District 38

Dr. Oli Fein, Physicians for a National Health Program

When: Thursday, October 27th, 2022 at 12:30pm

Where: Broadway & Park Place at entrance to City Hall

Press Contacts: 

Julie Schwartzberg  jschwartzberg@gmail.com      

Sarah Shapiro         sarahmorah@gmail.com         

The Cross-union Retirees Organizing Committee (CROC)

                                        crocnyc22@gmail.com, 

 

Here is the admin code changes the UFT etc want to make - in yellow.