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To the editor:
This is in response to Helen Northmore regarding the lack of desirable remuneration. I would like to stipulate that city officials as far back as 1978 have not done the right thing so far as remuneration for its EMTs and paramedics.
I know because in 1977/78, I was appointed as an EMT and eventually went on to paramedic school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, or Jacobi as it’s often referred. The unions at the time were masters at stroking EMS workers, telling them that the money was coming. The promise of pay parity was akin to the Pinocchio puppet since untruths were extremely prevalent in those days and continues to today.
My EMS brothers and sisters will continue to receive squat! I hope that I am proven wrong on the part of EMS. Godspeed all.
Pete Hosey
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