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Please take a look at Frontier Psychiatrist - the substack from Owen Muir - apparently employee have been suing employers around just what you highlighted w pharmacy prices - ie that entities that engage insurance plans for their employees are covered by laws around fiduciary responsibility - when insurance plans contract w groups like express scripts where drug prices are often much higher for the insured, employers violate that fiduciary responsibility and the insured can and are suing -

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@Suzannah Tartan Woah, I initially read your comment with excitement. Ooh yes, let’s sue the UFT because it’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time. Do those same laws cover fiduciary responsibility for a union to those it is supposed to protect and make the quality of their lives better? We aren’t employees of the UFT. Are we even technically members? Yeah, we’re forced to pay dues if we want NYSUT benefits like SHIP or the catastrophic plan but that’s a local 2, ie UFT choice. Not all NYSUT locals require their retirees to pay dues to access those benefits. We aren’t even really members even though Mulgrew decided to have that printed on our ID cards last time around. If we were members we’d get a full vote. Boy, Unity really complicates things doesn’t it? Actually Unity has made the last three years pretty darn complicated and a nightmare of stress for all of NYC’s public service retirees. Hats off to Mulgrew, lord knows how he lives with himself.

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We are members. Our votes may not count fully in union elections, but our collective vote will be very important next year. Also, we can certainly influence our rank and file brothers and sisters.

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Whenever I hear about Award Luncheons/dinners/junkets etc., I wish the entire UFT staff to be flushed out and replaced.

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I've never paid to go to one of those things. Sometimes I was invited and went. Mostly I recall rubber chicken, and an outlandish show from the mariachi chancellor, But as an RTC officer, I guess I'll be attending some this year.

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1. Absolutely we should not be saying “UFT Unity and their fellow geniuses at the Municipal Labor Committee have set us up to owe a ton of cash to Eric Adams.” If and when the time comes that Unity is replaced, the new leadership should start from the position that Mulgrew’s promise is not our responsibility.

2. Aren’t the Welfare Fund expenditures itemized in the LM-2?

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If you're talking about the form that gives UFT salaries, no it is not.

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I’ll see if anyone in PSC-CUNY will tell me how and where the accounting for its Welfare Fund is kept.

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The membership should demand an independent audit of the Welfare Fund

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I believe that pre-Medicare retirees are kicked off.

I also believe that the UFT’s prescription would qualify under Medicare Part D.

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It does, which kind of sucks, You can't use things like Good RX because it won't pair with Part D. Thus, both we and the insurance company pay more.

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When did the UFT kick retirees (and their dependents) off the Welfare Fund prescription drug plan and why?

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Why? Retirees continue on the dental plan.

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When you turn 65 and on Medicare we are no longer on the UFT welfare fund drug plan. We are switched to a NYC drug plan it is a part D

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And we get to pay for our drug plan, unlike most of the NYC public service retirees from unions other than the UFT.

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Another brilliant benefit negotiated by the "very smart people" in Unity.

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