Worker sacrifice
Carol O’Cleireacain’s article on city workers’ health-care benefits conveniently omits that city employees agreed to provide health-care cost-cutting measures that resulted in $400 million of savings in fiscal years 2009 and 2010 (“Unfair: City Workers’ Health Freebies,” PostOpinion, Nov. 13).
The city’s ongoing savings are more than $112 million per year. And O’Cleireacain’s “modest” proposal for cost-sharing would cost the average city worker’s family more than $3,000 per year (equal to 8% of the average wage).
Let’s not hide the facts.
Harry Nespoli, Chairman, Municipal Labor Committee, Manhattan
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