City Instructs LEEBA Members to Enroll In Management Fund

The Law Enforcement Employees Benevolent Association, which had its chaotic financial situation enter a new dimension when its offices were raided by FBI Agents Sept. 18 and it was subsequently learned that the union owed $500,000 to its longtime dental and prescription-drug providers, had its future further clouded when the de Blasio administration designated its 600 members as Transitional Employees.

That step, announced in an Oct. 31 letter to union President Kenneth Wynder from city Labor Commissioner Renee Campion, made the 600 Environmental Police Officers, Highway Inspectors and Sanitation Enforcement Agents eligible as of Nov. 10 to enroll in the New York City Management Benefits Fund, which provides supplemental benefits to managerial employees and other workers who are ineligible for union representation.