Benefits

Mar 30, 2011

Part-Time Health Benefits Initiative

A group of union members has initiated a much-needed awareness campaign to draw attention to the following: 75-80% of Pratt faculty are...

Aug 13, 2010

AETNA and Continuum Reach 3 Year Agreement

2 days after our petition was sent, the two parties had reached a 3-year agreement. Here is the news release from AETNA. The petition...

Jul 26, 2010

Final AETNA petition

The following was sent to 39 parties (see the “CC” list at bottom). We can only keep our fingers crossed that speaking up ultimately...

Jul 9, 2010

Pratt Faculty Potentially Lose Hundreds of Doctors and Several Major Hospitals

Dear Pratt colleagues, The UFCT would like to submit the following letter, inclusive of all faculty and administrators covered by AETNA,...

Apr 17, 2010

What is the role of HR?

I thought this was a useful article from the WSJ about Hr departments and their inherent non-neutrality within companies….Here is the...

Jan 9, 2010

Now Unions are Threatening to Pull Support From a Senate Health Bill that Taxes Employers’ Ben

Showdown with White House imminent. What happened to pulling support from a bill with no public option? It looks like we are dancing the...

Dec 17, 2009

AFL-CIO REACTS TO LATEST DEMOCRATIC COMPROMISES ON HEALTH CARE BILL

Here's the article. The AFL-CIO IS THREATENING NOT TO SUPPORT A BILL WITHOUT A PUBLIC OPTION. –Suzanne

Nov 13, 2009

Article 28.4 (b): Tuition Remission

A benefit enshrined in the Collective Bargaining Unit involves a full-time or adjunct faculty member's ability to follow any course of...

Nov 12, 2009

Health Care Bill Narrowly Passes in House

Good news or bad? Democrats and progressives are all over the map. Here is a range of articles addressing the issue: 1. New York Times...

Oct 31, 2009

Sanders to Push Single Payer in Senate

Bernie Sanders of Vermont will bring a single payer bill to the floor of the Senate this year.

Oct 30, 2009

HR 3962: Affordable Healthcare for America Act

I thought I would spend some time trying to read through the bill just introduced by the House. Purely from a layperson's perspective,...

Nov 6, 2008

Report of November 5 Meeting

MEMBER BENEFITS Two representatives from NYSUT attended our Union meeting on November 5 to explain many of the benefits of Union...

Mar 1, 2008

Union Dues are Tax Deductible

This is just a reminder to union members to deduct union dues from your taxable income when preparing your taxes. –Suzanne Verderber

Mar 1, 2008

Another Great Benefit of Union Membership: Cheap Theater Tickets

The Theater Development Fund offers up to a 70% discount on theater tickets if you are a full-time teacher OR (significantly for our...

Feb 19, 2008

More on Cuomo’s Investigation of Insurers

An editorial in the New York Times points out that the company used to estimate the cost of medical visits, estimates that are in turn...

Feb 15, 2008

Cuomo to Investigate Insurers, Including AETNA

The New York Times has reported that New York's Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating several insurance companies, including...

Feb 5, 2008

AETNA making decisions instead of doctors?

Who makes decisions on how to perform medical procedures, doctors or HMO's? This piece about AETNA demonstrates that doctors have to...

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