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Retired FDNY, organizing @NYCretirees to fight back from being forced into #Medicare Disadvantage by @nycmayor . I enjoy my English garden & restoring my old VWs

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Marianne Pizzitola
29 days
Please sign the petition in the comments!!
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Why is @NYCMayor Eric Adams forcing NYC retirees into Medicare DISAdvantage plans they don’t want and didn’t ask for? Listen to NYC retirees—including @NycRetirees President Marianne Pizzitola, ( @FDNYchic )—as they share what they’re up against.
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Henry Garrido @DC37nyc this is conduct unbecoming union labor. Stop stealing our healthcare and telling everyone you’re doing us a favor! You should have been fighting for us militantly instead of getting into bed with management. Labor fights to protect itself. @NycRetirees
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Meet Ira. He worked for NYC for 34 years & he earned his Senior Care. @NYCCouncil @NYCMayor can you tell Ira you don’t care that his Drs won’t accept @Aetna or he should suffer from denials of care because Aenta needs a profit? Traditional Medicare we paid for should stay!
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@thehousered Did you know @NycRetirees have been fighting @NYCMayor for 3 years trying to protect our healthcare he clawed back from retirees and the disabled! The cost? Less than 6/10 of 1% of the budget. We have won 9 times in court including two unanimous appeals decisions & he still fight
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Dear @NYCMayor we want you to hear us. #medicareAdvantage is NOT #Medicare and our care should not be in the hands of some panel the MLC thinks can determine our care. That job belongs to our doctors. “Savings” doesn’t belong in health care, this is our lives @CnDelarosa
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Thank you @NYCComptroller for not registering #Aetna #medicareadvantage contract. We must preserve the public health benefit if Medicare. Now it’s time for @NYCMayor to do the right thing & preserve @NycRetirees health benefits &set the example nationwide how to treat retirees
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@cameron_kasky Poor #NRABarbie is being attacked! Wait, let's all send her #ThoughtsAndPrayers
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@C_Sommerfeldt @NYCMayor Everyone gets a leg up other than retirees who served this city for decades & took lower wages to do it. I guess if I was a club owner or politician I might get a meeting with the Mayor to protect the very people he is supposed to. Now that he’s not a candidate he walks it back😡
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Retirees earn another win in court and more active workers join us! Two positives! @NYCCouncil @NYCSpeakerAdams @NYCMayor
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@nypost Respect? He striped retirees of Medicare in a bait n switch, refuses to meet with us since he took office, & lies about how great Aetna is that he’s forcing seniors in. Respect? Communication? He fails to take his own advice, stole our healthcare & won’t talk to us @NycRetirees
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NYC Retiree Awarded a MAJOR Victory
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Appears the @NYDailyNews is hearing from retirees on their slanted reporting thank you Mr Leventhal for speaking out.
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@NYCMayor @WBLS1075NYC Bait N Switch Mayor steals Medicare, a public health benefit from senior citizens & disabled and lies about the crappy plan he traded it for. We earned our benefits. He lied and flip flopped. We sued and won 6 times. After each win he schemed another way to steal our benefits.
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Let’s make this clear. OUR OWN UNION LEADERSHIPS SOLD OFF RETIREE HEALTH BENEFITS TO KEEP THEMSELVES PREMIUM FREE & DIDN’T TELL THEIR DUES PAYING MEMBERS. @UFT @DC37nyc @NYCCouncil @CnDelarosa @NYCSpeakerAdams @BrianLehrer @stucknation @WorkBitesNews
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Listen up! Our unions have a $600M hole in the Health insurance stabilization funds that pays active workers premium. The hole is due to the @UFT taking $1B from it for raises among other things NOT health related (the funds purpose). So they stole from @nycretirees 🧵1/2
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For @NYCMayor to slam Jeanie Dubnow for perceived disrespectful pointing when he disrespected HER…then ignoring @NycRetirees since he became mayor, flip flopped on us after election, robbing us of Medicare till a judge stopped him, we do the #JeaniePoint #RESPECT #seniors
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@CrimeInNYC What is it with the increased assaults on senior citizens???
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Good afternoon @UFT ! You blocked me on @Meta but…. I still 👀 youuuuuuuuuu😘 did you really think you stopped me from seeing you? 😂 since you now acknowledge there’s a budget surplus, you shouldn’t be privatizing Medicare for seniors & disabled retired unionists And DEFINITELY
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Patrick @NYCPBA we have fought hard protecting NYPD Medicare Retirees! @nycretirees are thankful for this major victory and know there is more fight ahead. No greedy mayor should take away an earned and vested benefit from a retiree! ❤️
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When they lie, it must be exposed. Stop stealing from @NycRetirees seniors and the disabled who served this city Aetna is NOT less expensive @NYCMayor @NYCMayorsOffice another #bigLie
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We filed! A major appellate win last week (left hook) and filled a class against the city today (right hook) !!! @NycRetirees warriors protecting ourselves!!
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Dear @EricDinowitzNYC , one of your constituents, and Retiree advises you are accusing me of lying. Please clarify what exactly I am lying about. I would like to know since you’re accusing me of something. We fact check. And cite and source our information. Let’s talk.
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The dangers of what the mayor is doing to @NycRetirees here is one. In all but 4 states you can’t go from a DisAdvantage plan like @aetna and into a Supplement like senior care without underwriting good luck getting approved and costs will be high. We know we tried
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Protecting @NycRetirees is serious business. The second time the First department appellate court affirmed the Supreme Court decision. Yay us.
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1 year
Join us and @Loc100fightback demanding our unions stop forcing us into #MedicareAdvantage plans! We want traditional #medicare ! Not managed privatized health care where our Drs don’t have the final say. Prior authorization. Networks. Silver sneakers is NOT an enhancement!
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When the nations local AARP office has your back, that speaks volumes!! Thank you @AARPNY
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Retired NYC public employees’ long-term health & retirement security at risk from @NYCMayor move to change health plan, says #AARPNY State Director @BethNY . City Hall must keep promises made to dedicated NYC public workers years ago. NO CUTS TO HEALTH CARE
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The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." That goes for the women too. @NycRetirees @NYCCouncil @NYCSpeakerAdams @NYCMayor
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The #MLC is gaslighting everyone in a letter showing “supporters” who didn’t authorize the MLC to use their name. Those unions are private sector ¬ subject to Taylor law! MLC has no credibility @UFT @DC37nyc @CWALocal1180 @GregFloydSlate @TeamstersJC16 we 👀 you #BigLie
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Henry Garrido @DC37nyc , Retirees denounce your thuggery. You steal healthcare from senior citizens & disabled, lie & mislead your own membership, & then threaten the City Council. Your insecurity is showing. Grow up or step aside, We need Great Leaders!
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How can @UFT @UFTUnity still say #medicareadvantage is better than Traditional Medicare when the @medicarerights Board including @LBUFT Leroy Barr, UFT Secretary and Alan Lubin, fmr UFT DR & @nysut VP, @JanellaTHinds @medicarerights found otherwise?
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Because @NYCMayor and @NYCSpeakerAdams should be thinking of their future and what it would be like not having access to a cancer specialist nationwide because they forced their retirees into Medicare Advantage.
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Marianne Pizzitola
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We did it. #RetiredLaborStrong because when your union who was supposed to protect you steals your Medicare for their own raise, and the elected who were supposed to protect you abandon you, you start movement to protect yourself. #organize #retiredUnion
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You are either supporting your Retirees or you are not. Where do you stand @UFANYC @UFOA854 ? Not saying the name of our organization means you do not recognize what we are doing to protect Retirees access to Medicare and supplemental benefits we earned and paid for. #SayOurName
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Dear unions, if an insurance company is telling you they will put your retirees in a plan that’s like #Medicare for free and has “added benefits” like #silverSneakers & rides, ask them if the #BrooklynBridge comes with it & walk away. You’re being lied to. #YW Xoxo, @NycRetirees
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Marianne Pizzitola
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When retired firefighters @UFANYC @UFOA854 invite me to breakfast at 0900 you go because I love these guys! Brooklyn Breakfast Club is in the house too! ❤️ #RMA breakfast We all agree Medicare DisAdvantage is NOT #Medicare 🙌 don’t diminish our healthcare-we’re retired union!
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Marianne Pizzitola
10 months
The @NycRetirees are happy to announce #TWU100R retirees formerly of the @MTA and @TWULocal100 were granted a TRO today stopping them from being forced into @Aetna Medicare DisAdvantage! #WhenWeFightWeWin stop stealing our #Medicare @SSWorks @BeaHero @CMAorg Court date Jan24!
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Marianne Pizzitola
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The @NycRetirees pays tribute to @AdyBarkan @BeaHero & the entire team! Their video is priceless & shows what you can do when you come together. We can’t wait to make some more good trouble together to fulfill Ady’s mission! #LetsDoThis #reclaimMedicare @galeabrewer @bradlander
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. @NYCSpeakerAdams has blocked our legislation to protect @NycRetirees . Let's talk ethics, morals, policy. @NYCCouncil @KeithPowersNYC There needs to be an ethics investigation to what is being done to us.
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AARP New York Statement on Health Coverage for New York City Retirees @NYCCouncil @NYCMayor @NYCSpeakerAdams
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@NYCMayor And you’re robbing seniors or their health care ?? Why would balance the budget on the backs of the very people who gave this city so much? We want our Medicare!! @NycRetirees
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@OsseChi Yes and @NycRetirees are going to fight for their lives until #medicare is protected and so are we. We earned our health benefits. We’ve won in court 7 times. Where have you been? Support #intro1099
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1 year
Thank you @stucknation @WorkBitesNews for reporting on how retiree healthcare is being sold off to finance our former unions and how city council members are uniting to protect us.
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.⁦ @WorkBitesNews ⁩ Breaking News ⁦ @NYCCouncil ⁩ Member ⁦ @CharlesBarron12 ⁩ introduces a bill to preserve NYC retirees access to Medicare and urges his colleagues to “not be afraid” to reject ⁦ @Aetna ⁩ Medicare Advantage. ⁦ @FDNYchic ⁩ ⁦ @WBAI
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. @NYWFP @NycRetirees have been working on protecting the retired city workers from having their Medicare stripped from them. We have been asking for a hearing and been ignored. Healthcare is a human right. Join us
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Marianne Pizzitola
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Congratulations 🎊 to Nassau County #CSEA Local 830 on their TRO against Nassau County from changing their health insurance! That’s 2 in 2 days. When you mess with a retiree, you mess with us ALL! @NycRetirees in solidarity!
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Hey @HenryGarrido17 @dc37 when are you going to stop the #biglie you sold us down the river! You privatized a federal public health benefit forcing us into a non union inferior health plan! DisAdvantage is NOT #medicare ! Prior auth kills people. Our Drs don’t take it. #greed
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#reclaimMedicare Make a Difference! @NycRetirees are counting on you!
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Marianne Pizzitola ( @FDNYchic ), President of @NYCretirees , and tens of thousands of New York City retirees are saying NO to the privatization of Medicare. But this fight doesn’t just belong to them, it belongs to all of us.
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Retiree warriors against Medicare dis-advantage go to Washington DC
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The Retirees took our fight to Washington DC and met with congressional leaders to discuss horrible Medicare Advantage plans! Delays & denials of care #PriorAuthorization @RepKatiePorter @SenWarren @chuckschumer @rosadelauro @RepJeffries @RepJayapal @maziehirono @RepLloydDoggett
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On #medicare you know what you have, almost all doctors except it. No prior authorizations. @Aetna #medicareDisAdvantage isn’t widely excepted & has prior authorizations that wrongly delay & deny care. People have died as a result. If it was so good, they wouldn’t force you on it
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We started in Manhattan with 60 retirees and #amtrack took us to #WDC to meet congress about the horrors of Medicare Advantage and the plan @NYCMayor and @NYCSpeakerAdams @UFT @DC37nyc are forcing us into by @aetna @RepJeffries @SenWarren @SenSchumer @rosadelauro @RepKatiePorter
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When @NYCCouncil @NYCSpeakerAdams @CnDelarosa abandon @NycRetirees & purposely blocks their bill from the democratic process, refusing to protect the federal public health benefit of Medicare, your bill dies #intro1099 . We WILL SEE YOU IN 2024 & so will the rest of the world
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@NYCMayor . @NycRetirees had an American dream. We worked for the @NYCMayor for a pension and health benefits and you keep trying to take that away. We earned our Federal Medicare and you forcing us into an inferior plan will harm or kill some of us and that is criminal after WE SERVED.
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Ask yourself why @SecBecerra isn’t listening to @NycRetirees or @ArthritisSTL or why @CMSGov is run by anti health people
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Marianne Pizzitola
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When a former councilwoman helps your fight, you know you’re on the right side of history. CM Margarita Lopez remembers Mary Pinkett fighting to protect Medicare & retirees and she’s joined by our retirees!❤️
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Marianne Pizzitola
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. @NycRetirees feels the loss of Retiree “Melissa L.” Who passed away after a repeated struggle with cancer. The last years of her life were spent fighting to protect her life and her #Medicare because @NYCCouncil didn’t. May your memory be a blessing- it is to us who knew you ❤️
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Marianne Pizzitola
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Thank you 🙏 @NYDailyNews @C_Sommerfeldt for following our fight. To Gary Altman for sharing his real life experience that many of us just read about. To Mary Pinkett for being that union leader/council champion and for @CMbarron2 for having our back ❤️let’s pass #intro1099
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Marianne Pizzitola
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. @AARP @AARPNY @DBunis love the article in the Oct bulletin. I will make ONE correction, #medicare advantage is not increasingly being chosen by new enrollees, they are being auto enrolled into them by employers evading responsibility & greedy insurance companies like @Aetna
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@mcuban @NycRetirees has been fighting @NYCMayor @Aetna for two years trying to force us into MA. No one listens that you’re forced into their drug plan whether the copay will bankrupt you or their formulary covers your drug- you can use an outside PDP. Aetna in court (we fund
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I’m going to bed early to get up to speak with Manny and Scott and Bob at 0700! Happy new year fellow labor warriors protecting healthcare from pariahs! Here is to victory in 2024!!
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7 a.m. ⁦ @WBAI ⁩ 99.5 FM ⁦ @stucknation ⁩ ⁦ @pchowder ⁩ ⁦ @MannyPastreich ⁩ ⁦ @32BJSEIU ⁩ on deal for building service workers; ⁦ @FDNYchic ⁩ update on ⁦ @NycRetirees ⁩ battle; ⁦ @scottdesno ⁩ on healthcare as a human right.
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Herbert Haber, OLR chief negotiator told @nytimes Victor Gotbaum DC 37 “Vic will cut your heart out if he feels you are hurting his members.” @bgotbaum can affirm Vic’s @DC37nyc would never diminish earned and paid for benefits. We are retired union labor! #protectRetirees
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2 years
The @NycRetirees were honored tonight and we were all on stage together!!!
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Join me and @NycRetirees @ @AdyBarkan @BeaHero going to DC. We want our #Medicare not a crappy #medicareAdvantage plan like @aetna the @NYCMayor is forcing us into. If their plan was so great people would CHOOSE it, not be forced into it and it’s still not Medicare
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Want to join the movement to #ReclaimMedicare ? Join the @BeAHero team on July 25th in D.C. to tell @POTUS we’re sick and tired of greedy healthcare corporations denying and delaying our care.
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. @NYCCouncil @CnDelarosa @AmandaFariasNYC @NYCSpeakerAdams @NYCMayor learn the truth. Support retirees. Protect traditional #medicare because it’s the right thing to do as an #American non not just a NYer. If @SenWarren @RepKatiePorter @rosadelauro @RoKhanna support us U should2
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. @DC37nyc hear Henry admit they took the money “rightfully or wrongfully” they all did in a deal made with the @UFT
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#RetiredLaborStrong 9 favorable court decisions. 2 unanimous favorable appeals court decisions. Tell @NYCMayor #EnoughIsEnough
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Hear @UFT mulgrew, who @UFTUnity defends say we need sell off retiree health plans or the active workers will pay premium #MLCvote
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The @NYCMayor must think we’re stupid to fall for “perks” like a gym pass or prepackaged unhealthy dry or frozen meals instead of direct access to healthcare. These are the only #silversneakers we need! #sparkle baby!
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Thank you CM Brannan for your public statement of support of CM Barron’s #intro1099 to protect retirees and #Medicare
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Marianne Pizzitola
1 year
Did you know @aetna is under investigation by the @DOJPH for fraud? @NYCSpeakerAdams @NYCMayor @CnDelarosa @NYCMOCS @NYC_DOI @NYCBudget @NYCComptroller You want to force @nycretirees into #MedicareAdvantage ? If it was great we wouldn’t be forced into it
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Marianne Pizzitola
1 year
When @UFT leadership sells off health benefits for raises and gets exposed by the retirees, in service workers should pay attention because you’re next. We said it for a year. Your plan change is imminent. Added copays and limited networks for savings are givebacks
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The @UFTUnity caucus has never lost a seat other than HS Exec. Board. Now they've lost two of 5 paraprofessional seats. Next, they will lose the retirees, after having stolen their Medicare.
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Marianne Pizzitola
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The NYC City Council needs true champions for Municipal Retirees, and Susan Zhuang is one of them! We were happy to come out and help @susanzhuangnyc be the next City Councilmember for District 43!
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Marianne Pizzitola
2 years
#nycretirees won! #again #protect12dash126 now!! Two courts have spoken! Every city council has protected retirees from mayors wanting to strip retirees of hard earned benefits. Will this one? A #BlueRibbonCommission is needed if you need help We earned and paid for this already
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Marianne Pizzitola
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I am not asking, I DEMAND a hearing on @Sedgwick failure to provide healthcare to our 9/11 responders. THEY HAVE NO NATIONAL NETWORK OF PROVIDERS!!! On top of @NYCMayor trying to force us into managed privatized Medicare Disadvantage. We are literally fighting for our lives.
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Meet Lillian, she is a @NycRetirees from @DC37nyc like me, and she will be 102! And tells @NYCMayor to leave her Traditional Medicare & supplement alone!
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Marianne Pizzitola
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Here is another reason putting seniors into an inferior #MedicareDisAdvantage plan like @aetna will harm retirees. Navigating admin tasks for prior authorization or network issues and billing are a burden that can’t be met.
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Marianne Pizzitola
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It’s Christmas Eve & I can’t sleep because a company like @aetna is so evil it once again is trying to force people into its inferior insurance for profit. Forcing people onto a plan that we would NEVER choose SAYS A LOT. 97% of drs in America don’t accept you & neither do we
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Marianne Pizzitola
1 year
If Michael Mulgrew won’t properly represent the @UFT OT/PT they should seek a union leader who will. They deserve a fair contract not a leader who breaks their unit and forces a revote because he didn’t get his way. This is not democratic. #OTPTproud
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Marianne Pizzitola
1 year
@WorkBitesNews @CentralLaborNYC @NYSAFLCIO @CrossRetirees When labor leaders become corporatists and endorse privatization of healthcare it’s time for them to go. All workers should take note we are fighting for our lives while our former unions are stealing our access to Medicare for value in THEIR BARGAINING! We are #laborstrong
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Marianne Pizzitola
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This thanksgiving give thanks to those protecting Medicare like @BeaHero @SSWorks @NycRetirees . Boycott @cvspharmacy @Aetna because they are greedy and forcing people into their plans. Stay on Traditional Medicare, or you might not be able to get it back with a supplement later!
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Marianne Pizzitola
1 year
So it appears the crossing guards, our lowest paid workers in @DC37nyc were told that they are going to be laid off because the @NYCMayor is cutting the budget. And this mind you is after they were given a contract. Way to go Henry Garrido! @JustinBrannan any room in the budget
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Marianne Pizzitola
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I wonder if ⁦ @Aetna ⁩ ⁦knows they signed a contract with ⁦ @NYCMayor ⁩ with an ‘arbitrator’ that charges $7500 a day supporting a deal negotiated by Bob Linn at $500/hr as a former city commish & ⁦ @cbcny ⁩ This is nyc tax dollars. ⁦ @NYCSpeakerAdams
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Marianne Pizzitola
1 year
I believe we can all affirmatively state the Commissioner of OLR LIED to COMRO & @NycRetirees when she said there would be no bureaucratic hurdles to access care or providers & their plan was better or equal to what we have. This was a PURE FABRICATION.
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Marianne Pizzitola
1 year
Well @rweingarten you are just as guilty for helping @UFT negotiate its CBA on the backs of other unions, forcing everyone into #medicareadvantage - an inferior plan diminishing benefits for workers & retirees & privatizing Medicare. You also helped misuse the HISF. Hello pot?🤦🏽‍♀️
@rweingarten
Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣🌴🥥
1 year
On top of sky high insurance costs, the cost of living in Florida is rising twice as fast as other parts of the country. But instead of helping working Floridians, DeSantis is pushing culture wars and campaigning for President. #DeSantisSoldOut
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Marianne Pizzitola
2 years
Thank you @BrianLehrer @WNYC the @NycRetirees for the opportunity to express ourselves to you and your audience. There’s more. Lots more. No one dissected all the ways this plan will leave retirees without coverage. The @NYCMayor doesn’t want to know! Let’s do this again!
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Marianne Pizzitola
1 year
Because real labor has morals & ethics and honor those who built their unions and this city! Retirees organized, grass roots fundraiser and built a village to fight City hall! More people come to our rallies than theirs! #laborstrong
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Marianne Pizzitola
1 year
When @dc37 attacks me as anti union, they are exposing themselves. Loyalty rather than competency is more valuable to them. @NycRetirees have won in court repeatedly showing Henry Garrido violated the law to steal from retirees to enrich themselves. That’s not just criminal 🧵1/2
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Marianne Pizzitola
1 year
. @NYCMayor is having his Aaron Judge year & it’s not good. via @politico @JCColtin not to mention @NycRetirees suing the him three times for forcing us into privatized inferior #medicareDisAdavantage by @aetna and he hasn’t won yet! Retirees - 6 Mayor 0
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Marianne Pizzitola
1 year
Fact matter to us. They should to you too. @ebottcher @NycRetirees 96% of doctors in America except traditional Medicare. The few that don’t are typically pediatricians or psychiatrists. Many retirees currently in Aetna, have lost their drs. 1/4
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Marianne Pizzitola
1 year
Hey @rweingarten , when the @uft attacks @NycRetirees striping them of their access to federal #Medicare they are not only attacking teachers, they are attacking America, and a public health benefit. Teachers unions exist to protect teachers, not sell them out @ChrisChristie
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Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣🌴🥥
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Let’s be clear: When Tim Scott and Chris Christie attack teachers unions, they’re attacking teachers. Teachers unions exist to give teachers a voice so that they can do their best for kids. #GOPdebate
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Marianne Pizzitola
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@NYCMayor You say you’re one of us but you’re not. Your advocating forcing us into an inferior health plan & refuse to hear WHY that’s true &!keep spreading the big lie it’s good. If you’re ok with diminishing a benefit we earned when employed, how can anyone trust you. You became a shirt.
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Marianne Pizzitola
1 year
Yes- And further proof insurance companies have no conscience, they are going around the USA convincing employers and unions their plans are better than traditional Medicare to allow their retirees to be autoenrolled into their plans violating the promises made to them.
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Ady Barkan
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"Healthcare executives' pay topped $335 million last year while 100 million Americans were saddled with medical debt." No, this is not an onion headline. Thank you, @wendellpotter , for shining a light on the rampant greed in the healthcare industry.
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