The MLC has never bargained for or represented retirees, and surely not for me as a non-union City Council employee.... Gary Altman, lawyer for City Council for 38 years.
Monday, August 21, 2023
This Altman piece is a dagger Mulgrew's heart. But just like Trumpies back him no matter what the crimes, watch the Unity Caucus hacks stay on the gravy train and shill away for whatever crap Mulgrew makes up. What's coming next is an assault on working member healthcare to make up the money not being saved by screwing retirees. He will try to put working members against retirees -- it's the rich boomers, not UFT leadership that's screwing you.
Here's the quick skinny before you watch the videos. Mulgrew, Garrido are lying openly about the retiree healthcare issue and are exposed in this op ed by Gary Altman, who was a legal Council on the City Council for 38 years and goes back through the history of how the UFT testified more than once to the very opposite of what they are claiming now. Marianne reads the op ed below with emphasis.
Mulgrew has been claiming the City Council can't pass bill 1099 which would offer retirees a choice of healthcare options.
Altman points to previous legislation to protect healthcare via City Council and not once was there a claim that it hurts collective bargaining. Somehow Mulgrew has been dragging the Taylor Law into this issue, claiming that by passing 1099 they violate the law. Utter bullshit.
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Marianne reads the entire op ed.
Here's the link to the article, which is behind a paywall.
And here she exposes DC 37 Henry Garrido.
EONYC chimes in
This is not a drill. @dc37 and leadership is making their threat to the rank and file PLAIN.
Now that their BIG LIES are being dismantled concerning any amendments hurting collective bargaining, the talking points are more honest and bare in their threat to active city workers.
And even as their actions are ruled illegal in court…
There is another nuclear campaign afoot to scare members to act on lobbying city council members to not protect retiree choice of healthcare.
Translation: They are saying if we can’t screw retirees … we will need to screw you, active city workers.
And yet the choice is not binary for our city unions. It’s not force retirees into MAP or we will need to agree with the city to charge healthcare premiums on city workers.
Henry, Michael, and Alan know this. They want to path of least resistance. And the one that preserves their welfare fund patronage system.
There are various paths and solutions that help all workers and keep costs manageable. And QUALITY, PREMIUM-FREE.
Thank you for the important information. It really does seem like everything, that Mulgrew accused Trump of, he is guilty of himself. Interesting that some unions are claiming they don’t represent retirees. The Uft collects dues from retirees, albeit at a much reduced rate, but it’s doing a lousy/laughable/nullified job of representation. This is in sharp contrast to almost all previous years. Prior to the last few tumultuous Covid years, the Uft catered specifically to retirees. There appears to be a concerted philosophical change of course, and we are beginning to see a more pronounced accentuation on active members, with the Uft instigating and directing animosity towards retirees. We are, of course, now the UFT’s currency- its bargaining chips. Years ago it was new employees, who were sold out before they even started, with tier 6 and other nonsense - now it’s retirees. Retroactive abortion in all its diabolical manipulations. It was easy peasy for Mulgrew and his coven - very few objected. This is of course very different -Mulgrew is not used to an informed and active membership or a fight - in my opinion he is as soft a union leader you can get, and has always been completely ill suited to the position. So all of this is quite a shock to him, his ego must be hitting him with a ball-peen hammer. He needs to do a quick and serious reassessment.
ReplyDeleteRetirees pay dues.
ReplyDeleteMulgrew has a fiduciary responsibility to all dues paying members
including retirees.
Mulgrew has violated his fiduciary responsibility with wanton disregard
of the interests of retirees.
Mulgrew is willfully disseminating misinformation in order to sow chaos and confusion.
It is absolutely imperative that an investigation of Mulgrew's
criminal actions be initiated in order to sustain the rule of law in our city, state and nation.