Politico Pro: Former city union officials push bill seeking health care choice for retirees

NEW YORK — Former prominent New York City union officials are putting pressure on the City Council to back legislation that would permit retired municipal employees to keep their traditional Medicare.

Details: In a letter to City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and Council members Thursday, 35 ex-labor leaders who either sat on or whose unions were part of the Municipal Labor Committee — an umbrella group for 102 public sector unions — urged the body to back a measure sponsored by Council Member Charles Barron that would change the administrative code to preserve health care insurance choice.

The committee supported the Adams administration’s plan to force roughly 250,000 retirees onto a Medicare Advantage plan recently blocked by a Manhattan Supreme Court judge.

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