Brooklyn's Paul is calling on Mayor Eric Adams to keep his 2021 campaign promise by increasing the salaries of city doctors to be on par with other paramedics.
Rep. Justin Brannan, a Bay Ridge-based Democrat running for next year's comptroller election, said the Adams administration has decided that emergency medical technicians and paramedics are not “uniformed personnel” such as firefighters or police officers. , accused them of treating them as “civilians” during negotiations.
“There should be no second-class emergency responders in this city, but what we have now is a caste system in the uniformed services dispatched to 911,” Brannan said.
“It's shameful. These people aren't ambulance drivers. They're town doctors.”
The city and District Council 37 Local 2507, the union representing 4,100 city doctors, have both reached an impasse in new contract negotiations, and the matter could go to arbitration, officials said.
Despite Adams winning the union's support by promising “pay parity” with other first responders if re-elected in the 2021 mayoral election, members have been under contract since June 2022. Working without.
Firefighters and medics are both part of the FDNY, but you can't tell from their pay structure.
The starting salary for a paramedic is $39,386 to $47,016, compared to $54,122 for a firefighter. 5 years later, EMTs typically earn between $59,534 and $76,472. compared to $105,146 for firefighters;
Brannan, who chairs the City Council's Finance Committee, said the city has sufficient funding in its “workforce reserves” to “deliver on” Adams' pledge.
Mayoral spokeswoman Amaris Cockfield said the city does not comment on ongoing negotiations. We hope that a fair settlement can be reached.”
