Retired MTA workers along with a coalition of active Local 100 workers have strongly criticized the union’s effort to strip the retirees of their cost-free government-run Medicare.
The elimination of so-called traditional Medicare, included as a provision on a new three-year contract being voted on by the current rank and file, will oblige thousands of retirees to enroll in one of two private managed-care plans they fear will be inferior.
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