The unions representing the FDNY’s Emergency Medical Providers staff are endorsing Justin Brannan’s marketing campaign for metropolis comptroller, a transfer that highlights a rift unfolding contained in the Hearth Division’s labor ranks over who to again within the aggressive race.
Leaders of the 2 EMS unions, Native 3621 and Native 2507, each mentioned they’re throwing their political weight behind Brannan due to his help for his or her push to have metropolis EMS staff’ wages be commensurate with firefighters’ salaries. Pay parity for FDNY EMS staff has lengthy been a high precedence for the unions, and Brannan, in his capability as Metropolis Council Finance Committee chairman, is pushing for this 12 months’s municipal price range to earmark $50 million for elevating their salaries.
Oren Barzilay is pictured on the steps of Metropolis Corridor on October 23, 2018, in New York. (Alec Tabak for New York Every day Information)
Between them, Native 3621 and Native 2507 characterize hundreds of FDNY emergency medical technicians, paramedics, hearth inspectors and emergency response managers. Like many different municipal unions, they’re recognized to mount get-out-the-vote efforts for his or her endorsed candidates.
Their endorsements come after one other outstanding FDNY union, the Uniformed Firefighters Affiliation, additionally endorsed Brannan in March.
Breaking with that development, final month the Uniformed Hearth Officers Affiliation, which represents higher-ranking division officers, endorsed Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, Brannan’s opponent in June’s Democratic comptroller main. That dynamic pits the division’s higher-ups in opposition to its rank-and-file firefighters and EMS staff.
There was no polling of the June 24 Democratic comptroller main race. Levine has raised more cash than Brannan to this point, filings present.
