September 2017 Vol.25 No.7 OSARC newsletter In This Issue

2 - In Memoriam

3 - COMRO Report

4 - Labor Buys a Newspaper - Trumpka vs. Trump

5 - Drug Prices Rise Again - A New Attack on Social Security Trump’s Environmental Agenda:

6 - Pension COLA Set - OSARC Luncheon Report - Workers Like Traditional An Unnatural Disaster? Pensions ur first meeting of the 2017-18 season will feature two speakers. Eric Weltman, a senior organizer for the nonprofit Food & Water Watch, will examine President 7 - Forum on Nontraditional Jobs OTrump’s environmental agenda – including plans to privatize America’s water For Women infrastructure, his promotion of fracking, and his efforts to slash the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency. He will be 8 - Nursing Home Arbitration emphasizing what we can do to oppose that agenda. Food and - Vote NO on the ConCon Water Watch was formed by 12 former staffers of Public Citizen in 2005. The group “champions healthy food and clean water for all” and “stands up to corporations that put profits before people.” 9 - Americans Support Unions Weltman has over 25 years experience leading social justice campaigns, during which he has assembled coalitions, organized 10 - Corporate Tax Reality media events, and managed successful legislative initiatives. He has written for many publications, including The American Eric Weltman Prospect, In These Times, and Dollars & Sense. Weltman 11 - Would Expanding Medicare graduated from the University of Michigan and earned an MA in Mean Inferior Care? urban and environmental policy from Tufts. Also on the agenda is Dr. Perry Frankel, a cardiologist with Advanced

Cardiovascular Diagnostics, who is working with OSARC to potentially arrange a È È È È È È È cardiovascular health fair at the union office. He will discuss how to prevent heart disease and strokes. Assuming sufficient member interest, we will arrange a date for the testing with Dr. Frankel in the coming months. OSARC 220 East 23rd Street • Ste 707 New York NY 10010 Next Organization of Staff Analysts’ Retirees Club Evemt (212) 686-1229 (212) 686-1231 Fax Wednesday • September 13, 2017 • 12:30pm - 2:30pm

(212) 330-8833 Hotline www.osaunion.org Guest Speakers: Eric Weltman, Organizer, Food and Water Watch

and Dr. Perry Frankel, Cardiologist, Advanced Cardiovascular Diagnostics

OSA Union Office• 220 East 23rd Street•NYC OSARC Officers 2017-2018 In Memoriam Chairs...... Sybil Allen, Edmond Husbands With sadness, we report the deaths of seventeen retirees. Vice-Chairs...... Serena Freeman, Alice Moise Vera DeGazon retired in 2002 as a Staff Analyst at the Treasurer...... Jean Anmuth Human Resources Administration. James Arangio retired in Secretary...... Theodore White 1993 as an Associate Staff Analyst at the Human Resources COMRO Representatives...... Mark Lewis, Theodore White, Jay Warshofsky Administration. Martin Lewis retired in 2001 as a Staff Analyst at the Human Resources Administration. Joan Dula É É É É retired in 2012 as a Staff Analyst at the Police Department. Newsletter Editor/Writer/Photos...... Rob Spencer William Pope retired in 1993 as an Associate Staff Analyst Reporter/Writer..... Jane Kelly Art: Theodore White at the NYC Housing Authority. May Engler retired in 1994 as an Associate Staff Analyst at Department For the Aging. Audrey Green retired in 1997 as a Staff Analyst at the Department of Corrections. Bracita Graber retired in 1999 We’ll Be Seeing You In All The Old Familiar Places as an Associate Staff Analyst at the Administration For Ninety-three (93) OSARC members and friends attended Children’s Services. Essie Flynn retired in 2011 as a Staff OSARC’s June gala luncheon: Analyst at the Office of the Bronx District Attorney. Charlie Sybil Allen, Adrianne Alpert, Hakimah al-Zahra, Johnson retired in 1994 as a Staff Analyst at the Police Gilberte Ambroise, Jean Anmuth, Renee Bash, Maxine Department. Roxie Bethea retired as a Senior Systems Batie, Andrea Behrens, Ed Birch, Shirley Bonadie and Analyst in 2013 at the New York City Health and Hospitals guest, Renee Boyce, Marcia Brown, Patricia Burton and Corporation. Dianne Gaertner retired in 1999 as an guest, Vincent Calamiello, Joan Capel, Joyce Cleveland, Associate Staff Analyst at the Department of Housing, Colleen Cox, Orphia Crump, Ralph DeMattia and guest, Preservation and Development. Francine Finkel retired in Sybil DeVeaux, Joan Doheny, Bill Douglas, Serena 2000 as an Associate Staff Analyst at the Human Resources Freeman, Sheila Gorsky, Al Gundersheimer, Diana Administration. Eric Solomon, James Murphy Roger Levin Gundersheimer, Phyllis Hailstock and guest, Betty and Mark Steo were members of the Marine Engineers Henderson, Mary Hillman and guest, Rosalia Jackson and Beneficial Association who retired from the Department of guest, Daniel Jacobson, Colleen Jinks, Ingrid Johnson, Transportation. Roslyn Jones, Jane Kelly, Rosanne Levitt, Mark Lewis and The Newsletter extends its condolences to their family guest, Edna Lyons, Eloise McDuffie and guest, Alice Moise, and friends. Lillian Ngai, Erwin Nied, John Ost, Olivia Parker, Eileen Pentel, Robert Pfefferman, William Pfister, Ed Platt, Van Hazel Pridgen and guest, Fred Ranzoni, Cora Ross, Margarette Rousseau, Nancy Russell and guest, Verneice Rutledge, John Scrofani, Lorraine Rose Scrofani, Carl Semper, Reasa Semper, Andrew Sessa and guest, Valerie Sheafe, Dorothy Skelin, Velma Small and guest, Sallie Stroman, Madeline Taylor and guest, Edward Tennant, Hattie Thomas, Kim Vann, Francis Vardy and guest, Ruth Verbit, Nona Volk, Jay Warshofsky, Regina Weiss and guest, Theodore White, Isza Willliams-Darlington, Carol Yost, Leoila Ziegler and guest. We look forward to seeing you at our next event!

30/30/30 raffle winners Christina Wong, Margarette Rousseau and Eloise McDuffie are flanked by Mark Lewis (left) and Ted White (right) who oversaw the raffle. Mark Your Calendars Be sure to reserve your schedule for upcoming Fall OSARC meetings. After Wednesday, September 13, the next meetings will be on October 11, November 8 and December 13, all at the union office, 220 East 23rd Street, 7th Floor (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues) from 12:30-2:30pm. Topics for the October and November meetings have not been set as yet. OSA Executive Director Sheila Gorsky (second from left) The December event, as always, is the annual retiree club is joined by OSARC officers (left to right) Co-Vice Chair holiday party. Information about the October and, hopefully, Serena Freeman, Secretary Ted White, Co-Chair Sybil Allen and Co-Vice Chair Alice Moise. Co-Chair Ed Hus- the November meeting will be in the next issue. bands and Treasurer Jean Anmuth were camera shy.

OSARC Newsletter • September 2017 • Page 2 Medetsky can offer more COMRO Report e xt e n s i ve t r a i n i n g an d The Council of Municipal Retiree Organizations information to interested (COMRO) meets monthly, drawing representatives of the organizations or individuals. He retiree sections of various municipal unions, including OSA, can be reached at hlm264 for a meeting on subjects of retiree interest. OSARC @aol.com and 718-998-2418. representatives to COMRO Teddy White, Jay Warshofsky, The New York City chapter and Mark Lewis attended the June 23rd meeting for of the New York State Alliance OSARC. OSARC Co-Chair Ed Husbands also attended. The for Retired Americans held an following is based on minutes provided by COMRO’s Stu information fair on June 28 at Eber. TWU Local 100 in Brooklyn The UFT distributed a flyer entitled “A CONstitutional featuring social service providers CONvention in New York?” and urges a “no” vote on th and social and political November 7 . The flyer says organizations. “It’s more than a bad idea. It’s a COMRO discussed then- CON.” current efforts to produce a no Jane Kelly An Alliance for Retired vote in Congress on repealing Americans flyer was in the form and replacing the Affordable Care Act. Contact with friends of a letter stating “I need and family in states with Republican congressional Medicare, not Coupon-care. Do representatives was seen as particularly important. The mes- not replace Medicare’s sage is the elimination of needed healthcare so that tax breaks guaranteed benefits with a for the very wealthy can be implemented is unacceptable. Use voucher.” of Facebook and other social media was encouraged. The June guest speaker was The Constitutional Convention ballot question will psychologist Dr. Herbert probably appear on the back of the ballot. It is important to Medetsky. He has worked for remind poll workers that the charts showing both sides of the Transport Workers Union Local sample ballot be prominently displayed. 100 and Columbia Presbyterian The Janus case, which comes out of Illinois, is working Maxine Batie Hospital on “Financial its way through the courts and will likely be heard by the Capacity.” Medetsky defined Supreme Court this fall. Like California in the Friedrichs Financial Capacity as possessing case, Illinois requires public employees who choose not to the knowledge on financial matters to confidently take join a union to instead pay an agency shop fee to the union. effective action that best fulfills an individual’s personal, A vote to end fair share/agency shop fees could be family and global community goals. Advances in medical catastrophic for public sector unions like OSA. science have increased our projected life span and increased COMRO attendees discussed a New York Times article the possibility of mental deterioration. about the alleged precarious finances of the City’s pension In normal aging, “Age Associated Cognitive Decline” systems. The article cited two different sets of auditing reduces financial capacity gradually over one’s lifetime. We assumptions and ignored the City Comptroller’s audit that are aware of our own deteriorating financial management finds the five systems in sound financial condition. skills. There are forms of mild cognitive impairments that Many other city and state pension systems are in trouble we may or may not be aware of which further hinder our because of poor management and the failure of the ability to perform activities of daily living. However, governments to make required dementia, Parkinson’s Disease and traumatic brain injuries contributions. There was concern are not easily self-diagnosed. These severe conditions that even though NYC’s system is drastically reduce an individual’s ability to perform even the sound, we will be attacked and most basic activities of daily living, let alone to safely make our current and future pensions informed decisions on short and long term financial will be reduced in the name of planning. preventing an invented “crisis.” Physical disabilities can also decrease financial capacity. Finally, COMRO honored Deafness and the side effects of chemotherapy or radiation Ginger Adams Otis of the NY therapy are examples. Daily News with the Freedom of As aging adults, we need to plan for the possibilities of the Press award, Doris Welch, our own deterioration or impairment. As union members and President of the NYC chapter of officers, we have an obligation to our fellow members to the Alliance For Retired direct them to appropriate professionals in the finance, social Americans with the Stuart work and medical communities. Leibowitz Award and MEA’s Compiling a list of our financial information and Stu Eber with the Lawrence J. computer passwords while we still have the capacity to do so Kaplan award. is a good place to start. Colleen Cox

OSARC Newsletter • September 2017 • Page 3 Freedom of the Press Is Guaranteed Only To Those Who Own One The famous press critic A.J. Liebling coined the phrase in the headline of this article while writing for The New Yorker magazine in 1960. Liebling was expressing concern for the ever-decreasing number of news outlets in the traditional print media. He was concerned about the concentration of press power in the hands of too few entities. He was writing, of course, before the growth of alternative news sources, including the internet. However, his point remains pertinent today for working people. With the high price of entry to the publishing field, print, visual or digital, it is far more common to read a newspaper or watch a television program produced by large Marcia Brown and Alice Moise corporations espousing the views of the corporate world than one that examines the concerns of working people or the Labor Leader Exits Trump Manufacturing Council unions that represent them. In the wake of President Trump’s off-kilter press That’s why a July development in Chicago was somewhat conference following the August Charlottesville, VA white hopeful. A consortium led by the Chicago Federation of supremacist march and rally, AFL-CIO President Richard Labor, the city’s umbrella coalition of labor unions, outbid Trumpka announced his resignation from Trump’s so-called the corporation that owns the rival Chicago Tribune to “manufacturing council.” The council had been composed of acquire the venerable Chicago Sun Times. business and labor leaders and was set up to advise Trump on his stated goals of infrastructure development and promotion of manufacturing in the United States. Trumpka and quite a few of the business leaders abandoned ship after Trump blamed “both sides” for the violence in Charlottesville that resulted in the murder of one counter-protester and the injury of 19 others when one of the white supremacists drove a car into a group of demon- strators. Trump had added that there were “some very fine people” among the white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups demonstrating against the removal of a Confederate era statue. With the writing already on the wall indicating all of the business leaders would soon bail, the Carl and Reasa Semper President tweeted that he was shutting down the council. In announcing the deal, the lead investor, former In announcing his departure, Alderman Edwin Eisendrath observed, “Our investors include the AFL-CIO’s Trumpka said, “we more than half a million hardworking people around Chicago, cannot sit on a council for a and you can bet we'll be talking with a voice that resonates President who tolerates bigotry and with the working class." domestic terrorism...We must The Eisendrath group convinced the U.S. Department of resign on behalf of America’s Justice's Antitrust Division - which oversees newspaper mergers – that it could run the paper for a reasonable period working people, who reject all of time by securing more than $11.2 million in operating notions of legitimacy of these funds. The Tribune ownership had sought to purchase the Sun bigoted groups.” Ed Tennant Times and merge the business operations of the two papers Asked about his decision, while leaving the newsrooms independent. Justice was Trumpka said that trying to work with the Administration concerned about the concentration inherent in such an had proven impossible. He described two factions within the acquisition. Trump White House. The first, he said, supported some The deal was praised by The Chicago News Guild, which goals that labor could also support, but it turned out to be a represents unionized newsroom employees at the Sun-Times racist faction. The other faction represented Wall Street/big and which had opposed the merger plans with the Tribune. business interests. Trumka observed that the council he sat “We're thrilled with this development,” Guild consultant on had never met and had not been asked for policy David Roeder said. “We look forward to working with Edwin recommendations by the Administration. Eisendrath and his backers in charting a new course forward for the Sun-Times." • • • • • How this will turn out for organized labor in Chicago

OSARC Newsletter • September 2017 • Page 4 remains to be seen. The Chicago Commission Act of 2017. The act, which has been introduced Federation of Labor said it would in the House of Representatives, would create a 13 member not seek to influence the news- commission that would make recommendations on Social paper’s reporting on labor unions. Security’s long term solvency. Its sponsors are John Delaney “We didn't get involved in order to (D-MD), Scott Peters (D-CA), Tom Cole (R-OK) and David get a pass from reporters,” CFL Trott (R-MI). Of the 13 members, six would be appointed by secretary-treasurer Bob Reiter the minority party and seven by the majority party. said. “Our reporters will look at During the summer, there were attempts to attach this to what is happening and report the legislation on the debt ceiling. story. If that means someone in the If they succeed in establishing the commission, its report labor movement has an issue, then will be made in one year, with recommendations that would that's the story.” be fast tracked without Congressional hearings, limited Ironically, the Chicago debate and without provision for amendments. Federation of Labor was, in many If that makes you convinced we are witnessing another ways, a pioneer in labor communi- Serena Freeman assault on the safety net, you are likely right. The only cations, founding and for 52 years operating the very first labor-owned radio station in the limitations that could prevent disaster, if the commission is world, WCFL-AM, which it launched in 1926 and owned established, is the fact that the bill requires each specific until 1978, when it sold the station to the Mutual recommendation to be supported by 9 out of 13 members. Broadcasting Corporation. Assuming votes along party lines, if only 7 members of the GOP voted for recommendation, it would be two votes short. • • • • • However, the bipartisan experience on the Obama “catfood Another Try At Undermining Social Security? commission” and the fact that the The billionaires on Wall Street and their politician bill is being sponsored by two friends never sleep in their goal of undermining Social Democrats should give pause about Security and possibly redirecting it into privatized accounts whether enough Democrats could as proposed by the George W. Bush Administration. be enlisted to support as yet Raising alarms about supposedly unsupportable debt and unspecified “fixes” for Social falsely pointing the finger at modest shortfalls in Social Security. Another potential brake Security funding as a major “crisis,” these evil-doers are on any commission action is the always ready for another round of covert attacks on fact that Social Security benefits America’s safety net programs. cannot be changed through In the early years of the Obama Administration, these reconciliation and require a Senate forces, after failing to achieve their goal via legislation, super majority of 60 votes. successfully pushed President Obama to appoint by Let your Representatives know you oppose HR 3423 and remain executive order a National Commission on Fiscal Ed Birch Responsibility and Reform. The Commission was more vigilant for this and other attempts commonly known by the names of to undermine the safety net. its two chairs, former Republican • • • • • Senator Alan Simpson and former Clinton Chief-of-Staff Erskine \ Bowles. No Surprise: Drug Prices Remain Out of Control While many in the media The government continues to pay excessively for drugs labeled it the Simpson-Bowles through Medicare and Medicaid. The skyrocketing cost of Commission, a more colorful older, in some cases generic, drugs led to a spike in drug costs moniker was bestowed upon it by to the Medicaid program of several billion dollars from 2015- opponents, “the catfood 16. A recent report in Kaiser Health News pointed out that the commission,” since its proposals rise in cost of 313 brand name drugs cost Medicaid over $3 included cuts in Social Security, billion more and the increasing cost of generic and non-brand drugs cost the government $258 million more over the same Medicare, and other social safety time period. net programs and for tax According to Kaiser, 30% of prescription druges have “reforms” benefitting the wealthy seen their prices leap by 100% or more over the past five and corporations. The “catfood” John Ost years. States are bearing a good chunk of the increased costs, name came from the idea that the reducing their ability to fund other essential services. Commission’s proposals might reduce older Americans to AFL-CIO affiliated Alliance for Retired Americans head surviving on catfood. Richard Fiesta said “rising drug costs hurt taxpayers who are While that Commission’s recommendations died on the paying for the outrageous profits of pharmaceutical vine back in 2013, we now see a new and sneaky attempt to corporations and the enormous salaries and bonuses of go after Social Security – HR 3423, the Social Security pharmaceutical executives.”

OSARC Newsletter • September 2017 • Page 5 Look For COLA in the September Pension Payment Every year in the September pension payment (due at the end of September), the City’s pension systems, including the NYC Employees Retirement System (NYCERS) include a cost-of-living adjustment. This year, the COLA will be 1.2%, up from 1% last year. The COLA, which was won by City unions in the year 2000, helps to ease the pain caused when inflation reduces modest pension awards. The COLA is based on the rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a year-over-year basis for the period ending March 31 of any given year. You are eligible to receive a COLA if you are a disability retiree, regardless of age, if you’ve been retired at least five years; or you are a regular service retiree who is at least 62 and has been retired at least five years; or a regular service retiree who is at least 55 and has been retired for at least 10 years. Also eligible are beneficiaries receiving an Accidental Death Benefit, regardless of age, who have been receiving that benefit for at least 5 years. Art by OSARC Secretary Theodore White Spouses receiving a joint-and-survivor option benefit are eligible to receive 50% of the monthly COLA for which the retiree would have been eligible. OSARC – Out To Lunch The COLA is based on 50% of the CPI (half the rate of by OSARC Secretary Jane Kelly inflation) on the first OSARC’s annual gala June luncheon was held this year $18,000 of your pension on Wednesday, June 14th, at Tony’s Di Napoli restaurant on o r t h e A n n u a l West 43rd Street in midtown. The event, well-attended by 96 Maximum Retirement members and invited guests, was held in an elevator- Allowance (including accessible lower floor banquet room. Photos from the event prior years’ COLA appear throughout this edition of the Newsletter. payments), whichever The food selection, served family style, was varied, well- is less. The minimum prepared, and professionally served. Each table had sangria COLA is 1% and the maximum 3%. and soda, a salad, an appetizer of prosciutto and burrata, a Over recent years, selection of three pastas (penne with broccoli, garlic and oil; with the CPI rising at Lorraine and John Scrofani spaghetti and meatballs; and ravioli bolognese) and three historically low rates, meat and vegetarian entrée dishes (veal marsala, eggplant one percent COLAs have been frequent. In fact, 2017's 1.2% parmigiana and chicken francese), as well as a choice of COLA is the first COLA over one percent since 2012. coffee or tea and delicious Italian desserts (tiramisu, mini cheesecake and cannoli). • • • • • Dietary adjustments were quickly made for several people. OSARC co-founder and OSA Executive Director Sheila Gorsky and outgoing OSARC Co-chair Ted White Defined Benefit Pensions Top 401(k)s In Popularity spoke and jointly fulfilled the Master of Ceremonies role. The outgoing OSARC officers introduced the new Among Public Sector Workers OSARC officers for 2017-18. Sybil A recent report by the National Institute for Retirement Allen will join Ed Husbands as Co- Security (NIRS) examined the retirement plan choices made chairs. New OSARCers and recent by public sector employees and found that public sector retirees Alice Moise and Serena workers offered the opportunity to choose between a defined Freeman will serve as Co-Vice contribution (DC) and defined benefit (DB) plan enrolled in Chairs. Jean Anmuth remains as defined benefit pensions. NIRS studied eight states that offer Treasurer and Ted White exchanges employees a choice between traditional pensions and DC his Co-chair hat to step up as the plans. In six of the states, the enrollment in DB pensions new Secretary. topped 80% in 2015. Florida and Michigan, the other two Finally, a 30/30/30 (33.3 to be states studied, had take-up rates of 76% and 75%, more exact) raffle was held and each respectively. In North Dakota, 98% of eligible employees winner received $101! Congrat- enrolled and, in Ohio, 95% did. ulations to winners Margaret Rous- Workers found efficiency in these plans, which provide seau, Eloise McDuffie and Christina a defined payout after retirement, unlike DC plans, such as 401(k)s, which offer no guaranteed outcome. Carol Yost Wong.

OSARC Newsletter • September 2017 • Page 6 their primary retirement account ranged from two percent in North Dakota to 25 percent in Michigan. NIRS said there was a noticeable uptick in employees choosing the pension after the 2008-2009 stock market collapse. NIRS research showed that employees directing their own investments tended to earn lower investment returns than that of state pension plans. The investment advantage in public DB pensions can be attributed to lower expenses, professional asset management and an optimal investment allocation used by the DB plan over decades. DB pension plans also benefit from longevity risk pooling. (Left to Right) Fred Ranzoni, Sallie Stroman, Hattie Thomas and Antonio Gomes The research found interesting results when it examined states that were eliminating DB pensions and moving new The study also examined economic inefficiencies of DC hires into DC accounts in the hopes of lowering costs or plans, including managerial fees and poor individual addressing funding shortfalls when states skipped their full investment decisions. Both can reduce results, hurting the actuarial contributions. NIRS found a DB to DC switch employees. increased retirement costs for employers and taxpayers alike DB plans have the advantage of a longer investment in the immediate future. horizon, allowing for better growth. Also, when states make the transition from defined benefit to defined contribution plans, they are often forced to maintain two accounts, also increasing costs. Even when the default option favored a DC plan, most employees still selected a traditional pension. In Washington state, the default retirement plan is a combination DB/DC plan. Employees must affirmatively act to elect to participate in the DB pension plan instead. The majority of newly-hired employees – six out of ten – actively chose a pension. The study’s co-author Jennifer Brown said “when employees have a choice, pensions continue to win in a landslide.” Brown added “Our findings also suggest that the Bob Pfefferman and Daniel Jacobson public sector is unlikely to mimic the trend away from Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the AFL-CIO- pensions.” There is strong employee support for DB affiliated Alliance for Retired Americans said “Teachers, pensions and pensions remain the most cost-effective way firefighters, police officers, and all kinds of state and local for public employers to provide a modest and secure employees work hard their whole lives so they can enjoy a retirement benefit for employees who typically earn less than safe and healthy retirement. Strong pensions help them to do comparable private sector employees.” this. The data in this study show that workers know this, and NIRS noted that some states had offered their employees that it offers efficiencies defined contribution plans do not.” a choice of primary retirement plan as far back as 18 years ago. Seven statewide pension systems give new hires the • • • • • choice between participating in a DB pension or a DC-only plan. In two other states, some or all employees have a Roundtable On Women in Non-Traditional Jobs choice between a combined DB/DC plan and a DC only To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the first women hired plan. Washington offers a choice between a DB pension and as NY City firefighters, NYU’s Wagner Labor Archives, the a combined DB/DC plan. NY Labor History Association and LaborArts, will host a The percentage of new employees electing DC plans as roundtable on programs that have helped women gain entry into the skilled trades and uniformed forces. The event will take place September 22, 2017 from 6:30 to 8pm at NYU’s Tamiment Library/Wagner Labor Archives, Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, 10th Floor. The panel will be moderated by Jane LaTour, author of Sisters in the Brotherhoods and will include IATSE Local 1 Trustee Eileen Macdonald, IBEW Local 3 Electrician/Shop Steward Erin Sullivan, Plumber Judaline Cassidy, and President of the United Women Firefighters Sarinya Srisakul. Should be an interesting evening. Admission is free but please RSVP to tamiment.events@ nyu.edu or call 212-998-2635. Andrew and Marilyn Sessa

OSARC Newsletter • September 2017 • Page 7 powerful taking advantage of the most vulnerable. Nursing home residents and their families must have the right to sue if the care they receive is inadequate or even abusive. Instead of taking power away from the victims, the government should be doing all it can to ensure that nursing home residents are given the safe, quality care they deserve.” Opposition to the Trump rule has also come from 17 state attorneys general and 31 Democratic Senators who urged the Trump administration not to adopt the proposed rule. Bill Douglas and Joan Doheny AARP said “We are alarmed that CMS’ decision to remove provisions prohibiting binding Hakimah al-Zahra Trump Attack On Seniors Would Kill Rule pre-dispute arbitration will very likely have dangerous and harmful impacts on nursing facility Banning Mandatory Nursing Home Arbitration residents, as well as their families.” Often, the admission package for a nursing home or rehab facility stay includes a document in which you agree • • • • • to forego your legal remedies to sue in court should anything go wrong. Instead, these agreements impose mandatory arbitration. Vote No on the Con Con November 7th During the waning days of the Obama administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) put – on the BACK of Your Ballot forward a new rule which would have barred nursing homes Our union and this Newsletter have been beating the drum from requiring patients to sign such mandatory arbitration for a ”no” vote on a state Constitutional Convention for agreements. However, implementation of the rule had been months. We repeat it again here. Every 20 years, New York held up when the main nursing home industry trade group State voters are asked whether our state should hold a obtained a preliminary injunction. convention to consider changes to our state constitution. The This June, with the Trump administration in office, the question will be on the general election ballot on November CMS reversed itself and announced its intention to remove 7, 2017. the proposed Obama rule. Instead they intend to implement If voters in November vote “yes,” an election for a rule that would allow any nursing home receiving federal delegates would be held in 2018 and the convention itself funds, including Medicaid or Medicare, to require new would be held in the spring of 2019. There would be three residents agree to arbitration and deny them admission if elected delegates from each State Senate district and 15 they refuse. Advocates say the Trump proposal would make statewide delegates. the present situation worse since it would override state laws So, what could be wrong with a Constitutional that currently protect nursing home residents from arbi- Convention? A Constitutional Convention opens the entire tration agreements. Constitution and all of its protections to change or Business lobby, the US Chamber of Commerce, is amendment. To assume that only changes good for working supporting the Trump administration’s new rule, claiming people would be proposed is naive. A Constitutional arbitration is “a system that is simpler, fairer and faster for Convention could be used by all parties concerned." corporate interests and their While the Chamber and many nursing home executives lobbyists to weaken many worker argue this helps avoid expensive litigation, arbitration tends rights and protections. to be a friendlier process for businesses and decreases the The New York State chances that abuse victims or their families can obtain Constitution guarantees at present justice. that your public sector pension can Perhaps even worse, the secrecy surrounding arbitrations not be diminished or impaired – in means dangerous institutions will not be openly revealed, other words - it can’t be cut once leading to the likelihood of further injury or abuse. you’ve enrolled. The Constitution A number of senior advocacy groups opposed the protects our right to a public removal of the rule, including the Alliance for Retired education, our right to be a member Americans and AARP. ARA’s head, Richard Fiesta said “the of a union and bargain collectively, proposed rule change by CMS is a classic example of the and the right to workers’ compensation. The Constitution Jay Warshofsky

OSARC Newsletter • September 2017 • Page 8 assures care for the needy, mentally ill Americans Like Unions; They Really Do and the elderly. It Amid a seemingly endless series of negative develop- protects clean air ments for the American labor movement and never-ending and water in our efforts by corporate interests and their bought-and-paid-for state. politicians to undermine labor’s strength and influence, we The NYS AFL- can report on one light in the tunnel. CIO and the New A Gallup survey this year says 61% of adults approve of York City Central labor unions. Although that percentage is not as high as Labor Council are during the period from the 1930s through the 1960s, it is the strongly supporting highest percentage since 2003. Gallup has been examining the a “no” vote and in- Roslyn Jones and Rosanne Levitt question since 1936. tend to mobilize union members across the state in a campaign against the proposal. They point out that the labor movement is facing a fight to preserve labor rights going back to the New Deal. They also remind workers that many union and worker rights provisions were inserted into the Constitution in 1938, a time of much greater labor activism, when the Wagner Act was new and mass organizing was happening in many industries. Most other states do not, even today, have the significant protections New York does. A Constitutional Convention would cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and would likely be controlled by well-funded special interests and career politicians. Union popularity dropped to its lowest point at the start A Constitutional Convention is not even needed to of the Obama administration. The 2009 survey was the first amend the state Constitution. All that has to happen is for an and only time that a majority of Americans did not approve of amendment to be proposed and passed in two successive unions. legislative sessions of the legislature and it goes on the In 1936, at the height of the CIO organizing drives and ballot for voter approval. soon after the passage of the Wagner Labor Relations Act, In fact, the November 7th ballot will have three ballot which legalized private sector collective bargaining, Gallup questions, two of which will have arrived for your found 72% of Americans approved of labor unions. The peak consideration in exactly that way. approval level was reached in 1953 and 1957, at 75%. In addition to the referendum on a state Constitutional Nevertheless, Americans are divided politically in their Convention, which is the first proposition on the ballot, there support for labor. Democrats were twice as likely to support will be a question on unions as Republicans at 81% versus 42%. The worst whether pensions political disparity occurred in 2011 when Democratic should be stripped approval of unions stood at 78% but GOP approval was only f r o m e l e c t e d 26%. Gallup reported that Democratic approval of unions has officials convicted been steady over time, while approval by independents and of public corruption Republicans has fluctuated. and a question about Gallup surmises, ironically, that the recent increase in whether stringent Republican approval of unions may be due to a perception environmental pro- that, with the GOP now in charge of the executive and tections in the Adi- legislative branches, unions aren’t likely to expand their rondacks and Cat- power. skills should be Nona Volk and Betty Henderson That said, Gallup found that Americans would actually loosened, allowing like to see unions expand their influence. In 2017, 39% of for certain infrastructure projects seen as needed for the Americans would like unions to have more influence – the safety and economic vitality of nearby areas to be installed highest level in the 18 years Gallup has asked the question. without a further constitutional amendment. The percentage who want labor unions to have less The three referenda will be placed on the back of the influence is at a record low of 28%, while 30% want unions November ballot. Votes for Mayor, Comptroller, Public to have the same influence as today. Advocate and City Council will be on the ballot’s front. The more Americans approve of unions, the more they The question, ultimately, is whether a Constitutional want them to have greater influence. Convention is a risk you want to take. OSA urges a “no” Still, Americans remain more pessimistic than optimistic vote on November 7th. about the labor movement’s future. Forty-six percent say they • • • • • think unions will become weaker than today, 27% say they

OSARC Newsletter • September 2017 • Page 9 will stay the same and 22% say they corporations were able to pay absolutely no corporate taxes. will be stronger. Eighteen of the companies paid no taxes over the full eight The trend in support for unions year period. 100 paid nothing in at least one profitable year has remained substantial throughout and 58 of them paid nothing in several profitable years. the 80 years Gallup has studied the question, despite enormous de- creases in union membership. Gallup's latest survey shows that 10% of American adults report personally being a union member, while 16% live in a union house- hold. The survey was based on tele- phone interviews of a random sam- Vincent Calamiello ple of 1,017 adults aged 18 and over in all 50 states and Washington DC.

• • • • • Valerie Sheafe, Adrienne Alpert and Ruth Verbit Thinking of Moving From New York? Check This Out Utilities paid an average of just 3%, oil and gas pipeline If you’re considering moving to another state, one more companies paid an average of 11.2%, and internet services thing to consider is whether the new state will tax your City companies paid an average of 15.6%. pension. As you may recall, NY State does not tax public About 25% of the companies paid an average of 30% or employee pensions, whether from the State itself or any more, close to the statutory rate and, according to ITEP, 60% municipality within the state. Other states have varying of those corporations were in health care or retail trade. policies. The Retired Public Employees Association has Overall, the 258 corporations studied benefitted from compiled a nice chart indicating whether each state has an $526 billion in tax breaks over the period, with more than half income tax, whether it would tax your New York pension, of the tax breaks going to 25 of the most profitable whether it taxes Social Security and whether it taxes businesses. AT&T received $38 billion in breaks, Wells distributions from 401k/457 plans. You can reach the chart Fargo $31 billion, JP Morgan $22 billion, Verizon $21 billion at https://rpea.org/retirement-planning/pension-tax-by- state. and IBM $17.8 billion. • • • • • One source of reduced taxes are tax breaks on executive stock options, which accounted for $51.8 billion in tax reductions over the 8 year study, with 10% of those benefits Do Corporations Really Pay Their Fair Share? achieved by Facebook. To listen to corporate advocates, conservative Multinationals, ITEP noted, often face higher corporate commentators and pro-corporate pols, you’d think American taxes abroad than in the United States. Of 107 corporations corporations are severely overtaxed. The statutory corporate they studied with substantial international business account- tax rate is 35%, but what do profitable American ing for more than 10% of their income, 62 paid higher foreign corporations actually pay in taxes? What is the actual tax on their foreign income than they paid on their domestic average effective tax rate for the country’s biggest and most income. The average foreign tax rate was 25.8% compared to profitable companies? 18.3% on US profits. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy took a look at eight years of data from 2008-2015. Since corporations can pay different tax rates for legitimate reasons from year to year, a longer term view is needed, according to ITEP. The Institute limited its review to corporations that were profitable over that entire eight year period. If a corporation had a loss in any one of the years it was excluded from the study. So, the study covered 258 of the Fortune 500 corporations that were profitable in each of the years Sybil Allen,Gilberte Ambroise, Mary Hillman from 2008-15. So, the next time corporations cry about how much they The average effective tax rate pay in taxes, you will know they are exaggerating a situation for these corporations was only that is in fact much more favorable to them than they let on. Sybil DeVeaux 21.2%, In addition, many of the

OSARC Newsletter • September 2017 • Page 10 qualified workers, and norms of Solidarity Forever! higher pay and better conditions A new report issued at the end of August by the become standard. If union density Washington DC-based Economic Policy institute takes a had remained at its 1979 level, look at who belongs to unions in 2017 and examines the weekly wages of nonunion men in value of unions to American workers and the American the private sector would be 5 economy. Unions not only give workers a say in their percent higher today.” workplace, but they help to reduce the inequality that has EPI also found that unions developed over the past four decades in American society. have a very positive impact on EPI says “collective bargaining plays an essential role in closing racial wage inequities. today’s labor market, by raising working people’s wages and Unions do this, says EPI, by “creat- supporting a fair and prosperous economy as well as a ing pay transparency, correcting vibrant democracy.” salary discrepancies, establishing EPI President Lawrence Mishel said, “We will never clearer terms for raises and promo- Eileen Pentel again see consistent robust middle-class wage growth or a tions, disproportionately boosting healthy democracy without first rebuilding collective the wages of lower-wage workers, and helping workers who bargaining.” have been discriminated against achieve equity.” According to the report, hourly wages for unionized women are 9.2% higher on average than for comparable nonunionized women. Black and Hispanic workers also get a disproportionate boost from unionization compared with their white counterparts. While noting the effect of decades of attacks on unions by corporate interests and their bought and paid for politicians, EPI notes that there is a “resurgence of interest in collective bargaining, especially among young people.” The report notes that unions are especially appealing to young workers aged 18-29, of whom 55% view unions favorably, compared with 46% of workers age 30 and older. Joyce Cleveland & Isza Williams-Darlington EPI reports that unions are more diverse than ever • • • • • before. “Union members today include dental hygienists, graduate students, and digital journalists, as well as Would Medicare For All Be Inferior Care? manufacturing workers and public-sector employees.” When the Congressional Budget Office reviewed the The report states that “two-thirds of union workers age GOP’s failed attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable 18 to 64 are women or people of color, with 14.5% of black Care Act, it found that the cost of health insurance would rise workers age 18 to 64 covered by a collective bargaining under the GOP proposals for most Americans. A different agreement, compared with 12.5% of white workers and approach would be to expand Medicare or Medicaid to cover 10.1% of Hispanic workers. more or all Americans. EPI notes that more than 1 in 9 workers are represented An article in the New York Times at the end of August by a union and that exercising the right to join collectively examined whether the lower prices paid by Medicare and to bargain wages and working conditions gives workers a Medicaid to physicians as compared to payments by private voice. The report argues, “anyone who supports working insurers affected care. It found that both Medicare and people or a healthy democracy should stand up and support Medicaid deliver health care at lower cost and the quality of unions and collective bargaining.” care is not impacted. The report notes the stresses unions and workers are Medicare and Medicaid pay lower prices to doctors and under, with productivity rising over the past several decades, other health care providers, resulting in lower costs. Those but wages remaining flat except for those at the very top, critical of expanding government insurance coverage claim who have seen soaring wages. this would result in only providers offering cheap, low-quality EPI says “ union decline can explain one-third of the rise care accepting the lower payments from Medicare and Medi- in wage inequality among men and one-fifth of the rise in caid. However, the article cited multiple studies showing that wage inequality among women from 1973 to 2007.” doctors provide the same services and treatment at the same Union members, on average, earn 13.2% more in wages level of care, regardless of which insurance plan is paying. than nonunionized workers with similar education, occu- The AFL-CIO-affiliated Alliance for Retired Americans pation, and experience working in the same sector of the said “Medicare and Medicaid offer an efficient solution that economy. is guaranteed to keep Americans covered and able to access EPI stresses that collective bargaining also raises wages quality care.” for nonunion workers. “As an economic sector becomes • • • • • more unionized, nonunion employers pay more to retain

OSARC Newsletter • September 2017 • Page 11 Happy Birthday to OSA Retirees Born in August & September Alfredo Acevedo, George J. Adkins, Adelina C. Agulto, Hakimah Al-Zahra, Yolanda Alayon, Frederick C. Alexander, Daniel Ambrose, AUGUST BIRTHDAYS: Arthur D. Aptowitz, Maria Paz Asuncion Arce, Preston Baker, Herman Barrocales, Claudia Bellavia, Joyce E. Bialik, Jack Blake, Robert Bleiberg, Timothy Bohen, Edward Braverman, Brian E. Brennan, Larry Brown, Frances Brown, Jeanette Brown, Joseph E. Burden, Mildred Burgos, Joseph J. Bushe, Marie R. Butler, John Cala, John Campobasso, Michael C. Capparo, Philip Carroll, Michael Chakrin, Dolores Choate, Estelle H. Chodosh, Philip Cipriano, Philip Clark, Mary Contessa, Kenneth Cox, Marguerite Cronin, Ila Das, Ellis DeAngelo, Kenneth DeJohn, Don Delorenzo, Frantz Desire, Ana E Deya (Lugo), Ailsa Diaz, Marvin Dozier, Gordon Duncan, Erlinda Duque, Maritza Durio, Andrea Eisner, Gaber Elhefnaoui, Elizabeth Farrell, Lillie Z. 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