The city has given unions and, by extension, retirees an ultimatum regarding health coverage: Get the City Council to pass legislation allowing the city to charge most retirees for continued enrollment in their traditional Medicare plan or risk losing the plan.
In an Oct. 28 letter to Municipal Labor Committee Chairman Harry Nespoli, city Labor Relations Commissioner Renee Campion said that if there is no meaningful progress on Council legislation by Nov. 4, the city will ask an arbitrator to order the “immediate implementation” of a cost-saving Medicare Advantage plan and the elimination of other plans.
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