MEDIA ADVISORY: RALLY WILL URGE CITY COUNCIL NOT TO CHANGE HEALTH BENEFITS FOR ACTIVE AND RETIRED WORKERS

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RALLY WILL URGE CITY COUNCIL NOT TO CHANGE HEALTH BENEFITS FOR ACTIVE AND RETIRED WORKERS

Scores of city retirees will gather at City Hall Park on Wednesday, Oct. 12, to urge city council members not to change a city law that protects the health benefits of both active and retired municipal workers. Mayor Eric Adams has pushed for the change to a section of the city’s Administrative Code 12-126.

No amendment has yet been formally introduced, but a retiree group has obtained internal communications showing that the change favored by the mayor could upend benefits that have attracted people to city jobs for generations.  The communication includes comments that the City will "eat the $1 billion it's owed" if the Municipal Labor Committee agrees to change the Code, in addition to other changes. 

Date:  Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022, coinciding with in-person City Council general meeting

Schedule:  Demonstration including video displays on truck: 12:15 pm to 2:00 pm, Broadway near Park Place

Press conference and speakers, including Marianne Pizzitola, president of the New York Organization of Public Service Retirees 1:00 pm to 1:30 pm, same location as above

Demonstration continues at UFT headquarters, 52 Broadway, 3:30 to 4:30 pm

 

Media contact: Marianne Pizzitola