It is obvious the governor elect Andrew M Cuomo, has higher ambitions than the governor’s office because he wants to appease the republicans at the expense of the civil service employees. Thus the best option to proceed would be to have counter policies that would keep the future membership’s benefits intact and those policies should not be short sighted but infinite.
We are not going to second guess why the state stock portfolio did not do well since 2008. That by itself is a mortal sin, and the state comptroller should answer questions about its performance. When employees entrust their pension monies to the state comptroller they believe that their money would flourish so that they can be able to enjoy it at retirement. Therefore that is not the whole problem but rather part of it.
The other part of the problem with the current political hysteria is directed towards civil service employees pension and retiree healthcare coverage. It is important to be ready with policies that will keep the membership’s benefits intact. We should have preemptive policies than reactive policies. We cannot sleep at the switch because then the new policies will be dictated to us and we do not want that to happen.
We have to stick with the basics of protecting the membership’s benefits and we must redefine those benefits so that they can extend from the current employees, future employees and retirees. Local 100 should be about doing and having a slow-burn energy that can sustain us so that we can stay focused. Its the way we can accomplish our goal in protecting the membership’s benefits.
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