The NYC Council's recent approval of a wage increase for app-based grocery-delivery workers has caused discontent among FDNY EMTs, who earn less than these workers. The pay increase for grocery delivery workers raises their wages to $21.44 per hour, outpacing the earnings of New York's emergency medical responders, who make about $18.94 hourly. Union President Oren Barzilay criticized this decision as a failure to support frontline medical responders who are often unable to afford basic living expenses. The EMS Local 2507 represents about 4,000 EMTs who have been without a contract for three years.
Emergency medical technicians are fuming after the NYC Council approved a pay increase for app-based grocery-delivery workers that leaves the city's medical first responders earning less than most deliveristas.
Barzilay said the union has been without a contract for three years, and the city steadfastly refuses to bargain in good faith, while our brave EMTs can barely afford rent and food.
Apparently, they are trying to starve our members out of work, and the byproduct is a brain-drain of 70% of EMTs quitting within five years.
With an hourly wage of $18.94 per hour, the members make about $2.50 per hour below the minimum legal wage for the city's private sector food delivery workers.
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