CUNY requires students and employees to be fully vaccinated for Spring semester, but no need for boosters
CUNY students, faculty, and staff must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend spring classes, although they do not have to show that they have got booster shots, CUNY officials recently announced.
Adams Blasted for Proposed Library Cuts
Library staff, community leaders, students, and parents on Tuesday evening rallied against proposed budget cuts for libraries citywide in front of Queens Borough Public Library’s Sunnyside branch.
Responses to the State of the State, NYC Budget
Statement on Governor Hochul’s State of the State We are heartened to see Gov. Hochul commit to continuing implementation of her vision for the transformation of our state’s higher education system in her State of the State policy book. After years of public disinvestment, she committed last year to increase…
Is Adams’ Medicare Advantage ploy ‘a game of chicken?’
About midway through Monday’s City Council hearing on Mayor Eric Adams’s demand that a Medicare Advantage plan become the only no-premium healthcare option for municipal retirees, Council Member Lincoln Restler (D-Greenpoint) pondered out loud, “Is this all a game of chicken?” He was referring not just to the high stakes…
Retirees want NYC to say no to Medicare Advantage
This time next week, New York City might be switching out the Medicare coverage it has traditionally given retired city workers and their dependents, and instead signing them up for coverage with a privately managed “Medicare Advantage” or Medicare Part C health insurance plan.
Protect Our Health Care
PSC Urges City Council to Oppose Shifting Retiree Healthcare to Medicare Advantage Offers Alternative Plan to Protect Health Insurance of 250,000 Municipal Retirees President James Davis, Barbara Caress, a healthcare policy expert from the Zicklin School at Baruch College, and Jennifer Gaboury, chair of the PSC chapter at Hunter College,…
CUNY union testifies against potential switch to Medicare Advantage healthcare plan
City retirees and union members testified Monday against a proposed change to an administrative code that would shift the healthcare plan for roughly 250,000 retirees to Medicare Advantage, a privatized version of the current healthcare plan.
A better way for retiree health care
For more than half a century, New York City has kept a covenant with its workers: your wages will be modest — lower than those of your counterparts in the suburbs or the private sector — but as a full-time employee you will be entitled to health care coverage without…
Retirees’ Medicare fight has Council ally
Municipal retirees battling the city’s proposed shift to a private Medicare plan for its 250,000 retired workers have a prominent ally in the City Council.
