Staten Island University Hospital EMT Training Program Scholarship Awardees Announced
Editor’s note: One of our questions to Northwell/SIUH related to which New York authorized EMS…
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NYC Retirees Win Settlement To Refund Copays To Retired Workers From EmblemHealth, NYC: UPDATED Rally Today
Editor’s note: Some good news for retirees in NYC! This new mayor may be…
EMSPAC Interview: On Staten Island, Other NYC Boroughs, Ambulance Response Times Suffering – May Be Due To Staffing Shortages Resulting From Low Wage For Ems Workers
We previously covered this issue in some detail, and this weekend we are bringing you…
Staten Island Ambulance Response Times Will Suffer Even More When Richmond County Medical Center Eliminates Their Hospital Ambulance Units Later This Year
Staten Island Ambulance Response Times Will Suffer Even More When Richmond County Medical Center Eliminates…
Health Insurance Stabilization Fund Misused By City’s Municipal Labor Committee: Comptroller Lander Releases Long Awaited Audit
Health Insurance Stabilization Fund Misused By City’s Municipal Labor Committee: Comptroller Lander Releases Long Awaited…
FDNY EMS Union: Mayor Adams Can Fulfill Past Campaign Promise For Pay Parity For FDNY EMTs
FDNY EMS Union: Mayor Adams Can Fulfill Past Campaign Promise For Pay Parity For FDNY…
Bringing Attention To Low Wages For EMS: FDNY EMS Local 2507 Launches #StandWithEMS Campaign
FDNY EMS Local 2507 Launches #StandWithEMS Campaign Editor’s note: This is the same career that…
Active, Retired NYC Municipal Union Workers, Advocacy Organizations Protest To Protect Their Healthcare, Demand Transparency
ACTIVE UNION MEMBERS, RETIREES AND ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS PROTEST IN SOLIDARITY TO PROTECT THEIR HEALTHCARE AND…
NYC Retirees March Tomorrow At 1:30 In Manhattan With International Organization Of Maritime Masters, Mates, & Pilots
The NYC Retirees Partner with the International Organization of Maritime Masters, Mates & Pilots and…
NYC Retirees To Mayor Adams Today At City Hall: Protect Our Health Insurance, Support Council Bill Intro 1096
NYC Public Service Retirees Unveil Giant 65th Birthday Card for NYC Mayor Adams Group Invites Mayor…
New York City Transit Hiring Skilled Tradespeople! Submit By Sunday’s Deadline – Residents Of Staten Island Welcome To Apply
New York City Transit is hiring skilled tradespeople! Apply by July 27, 2025 New York…
NYC Retirees Healthcare Fight For Traditional Medicare: Update With Marianne Pizzitola
NYC Retirees Healthcare Fight For Traditional Medicare: Update With Marianne Pizzitola Staten Islander News…
In NYC: Retirees Will Not Be Forced Into Medicare Advantage Over Traditional Medicare Despite Court Ruling: Mayor Adams Makes New Announcement, Local Voices Weigh In
In NYC: Retirees Will Not Be Forced Into Medicare Advantage Over Traditional Medicare Despite Court…
NYC Retirees: With Court Case Lost At Highest Level, Focus Turns To Politicians, Upcoming Primaries, Election
NYC Retirees: With Court Case Lost At Highest Level, Focus Turns To Politicians, Upcoming Primaries,…
Staten Island, NYC Municipal Retirees To Rally To Support Their Legal Team in Latest Battle With Mayor Adams, City of New York
Editor’s note: NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees shared their unanimous decision handed down by…
All-Cause Mortality Occurs Seven To Ten Years Earlier For Working-Class vs. High Net Worth Individuals
NEW REPORT: Working-Class Americans Can Expect to Die at Least 7 Years Earlier than the…
New York City Values, New York City Strong
New York City Values, New York City Strong Editor’s note: We’ve previously covered the…
Breaking Housing Records, Giving New Yorkers Key To Their Future
Breaking Housing Records and Giving New Yorkers a Key to their Future Editor’s note: The…
January Plan Makes Our City Safer, More Affordable To Raise A Family
January Plan Makes Our City Safer and More Affordable to Raise a Family Editor’s note:…
Meeting With President Trump, $80M Medical Debt Relief, Response To Gov Hochul’s State Budget: Mayor Adams
Meeting With President Trump, $80M Medical Debt Relief, Response To Gov Hochul’s State Budget: Mayor…
NY Senators, Democratic Delegation: Restore SALT Deduction To Benefit Millions Of Working-Class Americans
FIXING A PROBLEM REPUBLICANS CREATED: GILLIBRAND, SCHUMER, NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC DELEGATION CALL ON PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP…
Making New York City Best Place To Raise Your Family, Including Lower, Middle Income Residents
Making New York City the Best Place to Raise a Family Editor’s note: Staten Islander…
NYers Approve State Of the City Address; New Agenda For 4th Address; 24 Affordable Housing Complexes On 24 Public Sites; NYPD Recruit Graduation Ceremony;
MAYOR ADAMS LAYS OUT AMBITIOUS AGENDA TO MAKE NEW YORK CITY BEST PLACE TO RAISE A FAMILY IN FOURTH STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS …
NYC Is 400 Years Old This Year: Celebrating Our City’s History, Culture
Celebrating 400 Years of the Greatest City in the World Editor’s note: Last weekend’s op-ed…
Involuntary Commitment Changes; New Hate Crimes Prevention Director; NonProfit Services Director; Drought Watch Lifted; NYC Health + Hospitals Possible Strike; Kingsbridge Armory Reimagining
MAYOR ADAMS’ STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO GOVERNOR HOCHUL’S PLANS TO INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO FINALLY CHANGE NEW YORK’S INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT…
Almost 65 Million Reasons Why New York City Tourism is Back: Mayor Adams
Almost 65 Million Reasons Why New York City Tourism is Back Editor’s note: The Mayor’s…
Drought Downgraded From Warning To Watch; Tentative Agreement With City Unions For Pay Raises For Physicians, Medical Examiners; New EPA Grants To Electrify Heavy-Duty Vehicles, School Buses; James Stratford Names Director Of NYC’s Young Men’s Initiative; Dr. Phil’s Primetime,
Drought Downgraded From Warning To Watch; Tentative Agreement With City Unions For Pay Raises For…
City Must Pay Full Cost Of Retired Municipal Worker’s Health Insurance Plans: Highest Court Rules In Favor Of Retirees
Today’s Ruling Requires City to Pay the Entire Cost of Retirees’ Preferred Health Insurance Plan…
NYC Municipal Retirees Tell Mayor Adams: Stop Trying To Take Medicare Away From Former City Workers, Union Employees
New Yorkers Tell Mayor Adams, “Stop trying to take Medicare away from NYC retirees!” Hundreds…
Brooklyn Community Board Positions Now Open: Entry Level Into Municipal Government
Editor’s note: The employment opportunity described below includes membership in the city’s union contract. This…
Retiree Victory! Unanimous Appeals Court Ruling Affirms NYC Retired Municipal Workers’ Right To Keep Their Public Medicare Programs – UPDATED
New York Appellate Division Affirms City Retirees’ Right to Promised Medicare Benefits Today’s Ruling Bars…
Medicare Advantage Has Many Issues: HHS, CMS Need To Make New Policies To Reform Medicare Advantage – Send Letter To Your Representatives
Retirees have serious concerns about the Medicare Advantage program. Editor’s Note: As we have covered…
Judge Rules In Favor Of Retirees Regarding Illegally Charged Copayments
NY SUPREME COURT GRANTS CLASS STATUS TO NYC GOVT RETIREES OVER ILLEGALLY COLLECTED COPAYS The…
Put People Over Profit: Health Insurance Companies Rely On Claim Denials, Withholding Care To Achieve High Profits
Hundreds Rally at Aetna and UnitedHealth in Hartford to Demand Care & Reverse Denied Claims…
Not An Attack On Collective Bargaining: Fmr. NYC Union Leaders Dispute MLC’s Attack On Intro 1099 Protect NYC Retiree Healthcare
Former NYC Union Leaders Unite to Dispute MLC’s Lie About City Council Bill Int. 1099-2023…
NYC Retirees Call For Public Hearings On Intro 1099, Bill Will Protect Retirees’ Earned Healthcare Benefits
NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees Calls on City Council to Hold Public Hearing on…
NYC Wants To Force Retired NYPD, FDNY, EMS, Into Inferior Medicare Advantage Plan, Where Insurer, Not Doctor, Is Gatekeeper To Healthcare For Elderly – Interview With Marianne Pizzitola
NYC Retired Workers, Including Police, Fire, EMS, Who Are No Longer Voting Union Members, Being…
NYC Retirees Incl. FDNY, NYPD, EMS, Teachers, Other City Workers Win Permanent Injunction From NY State Supreme Court; City Files Appeal, Fight Continues
State Supreme Court Rules Against New York City’s Plan to Strip City Retirees of Promised Medicare…
NYC Organization Of Public Service Retirees Takes Fight Against Forced Medicare Advantage To Washington
NYC Retirees, Medicare Advantage Patients and Families Join Members of Congress to Call for an…
NYC Org of Public Service Retirees To Rally Outside City Hall TODAY To Call For Passage Of Intro 1099, Celebrate Court Injunction
New York City Retirees Rally Outside City Hall for Intro 1099 by CM Barron &…
NYC Retirees Secure Preliminary Injunction Halting City’s Plan To Force Them Off Their Current Promised Medicare Benefit Plans Onto Medicare Advantage
New York City Retirees Secure Preliminary Injunction Halting City’s Plan to Strip Them of Their…
NYC Org Of Public Service Retirees Responds To Union Boss Garrido’s Statements About Retirees, Healthcare
New York City Organization Of Public Service Retirees Responds to Union Boss Henry Garrido’s Misrepresentations…
NYC Retirees Respond To Mayor Adams Announcement He Registered Aetna Medicare Advantage Plan Despite Lawsuits, Refusal Of Most Physicians To Accept Plan
New York City Retiree’s Response to Mayor Adams Announcement he Registered the Aetna Medicare Advantage…
NYC Organization Of Civil Service Retirees Thanks Comptroller Lander For Rejection Of Aetna Medicare Advantage Contract
New York City Retiree’s Response to Comptroller Lander Refusing to Register the Aetna Medicare Advantage…
NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees Secures Another Victory On Appeal For Healthcare Rights Of Retirees
NEW YORK CITY ORGANIZATION OF PUBLIC SERVICE RETIREES SECURES ANOTHER APPELLATE VICTORY FOR RETIREE HEALTHCARE…
Marianne Pizzitola Of NYC Org Of Public Service Retirees Makes Statement About Forced Health Care Change By Adams’ Administration
New York City Organization Of Public Service Retirees Responds To NYC Council Decision To Table…
OPINION – NYC Union Retirees Health Plan Debate: Ageist Collusion Harms Elders
A Message From the Assertive Kids Foundation President One of the aims of Assertive Kids…
Battle For Retiree Healthcare Is Far From Over. Municipal Labor Committee, To Benefit Of City, Not Retirees, Votes To Force All Retired NYC Workers Into Medicare Advantage, Limiting Doctors They Can See, Reducing Insurance Coverage
We have received an update from Marianne Pizzitola of the NYC Organization Of Retired Municipal…