Local 628 joining NYPFRA

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Got the newsletter from NYPFRA. President Wicoff reports that Local 628 Yonkers Firefighters are going to join the NYPFRA. He states this would be about a 31% jump in membership for our Association.

Details are being worked out, but by the end of the year this is supposed to occur.

As President Wicoff put it "This is what I call 'thinking about your future', by having all your active members become knowledgeable in retiree issues."

He further states that this is THE most proactive move by a police or fire union in the entire state, and helps insure active and retirees work together.

Couldn't agree more with the President, and I think this is a great move by Local 628. Awesome news.

Active guys getting involved with retiree issues is a smart move, and all cops and firefighters on the job should join the New York Police and Fire Retirees Association, for a number of reasons.

Some day God willing all of you will be retired. You want to be involved right now, keep informed, and there's no better way to do that than to join the NYPFRA. These brothers do some serious work up in Albany; they are constantly pushing to get legislation through that would protect retirees' health benefits, just like the teachers in NYS enjoy protection by law of their retiree health benefits.

White Plains cops and firefighter retirees are under attack by a slippery city council, to pay into their health coverage. The same council members who got elected with union support, turn around and at a late hour insert language into legislation to require retirees to pay 15% on their health coverage. You know, it starts with 15%, and ends up being 50% in ten years. Percentages are a tough item.

The NYPFRA executive board asked active locals to send letters of support for various legislative initiatives supported by both the active local and the retirees assoc. They then use those letters (representing VOTES mind you) to show legislators the support a piece of legislation has. According to our newsletter the following five organization are the ONLY ones whose executive boards followed up their verbal support with letters:

1. Dobbs Ferry Police Assn.

2. Police Columbia Assn. of Westchester County

3. Local 628 Yonkers Fire Fighters

4. UFOA Yonkers FD

5. N.Y.S.P.F.F.A.

That's it, from contacting FORTY-FIVE active groups.? What's up with that? I know plenty of union execs read these pages. Come on fellas, let's follow up with those letters, and improve the communication with the NYPFRA?

You know Cuomo is a runaway favorite for the next Governor's seat right? Well his agenda is to call for "People's Convention" to "rewrite state constitution."

Once a convention begins "EVERYTHING" is on the table.

Get involved. Join the NYPFRA today, active members encouraged to join.

Once again, Yonkers Fire Fighters Local 628, comes through with more than talk. I respect an organization as proactive as that.

PS: Welcome aboard EFD Firefighter C.G.

http://www.NYPFRA.org

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OK Time for the rest of the County to hop on board. And FDNY NYPD. When youu have 30,000 votes, politicians listen...even if they hate our guts.