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De Blasio’s Police/Fire Disability Fix Blasted By Unions: ‘2nd Class’

By SARAH DORSEY
Posted 5/18/15

After months of protesting the lower line-of-duty disability benefits of his newer members, the head of the Firefighters’ union last week said he was blindsided by an offer from Mayor de Blasio that he and Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick J. Lynch called “unacceptable,” saying it offered just a slightly better “second-class-citizen status” than now exists.

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