Hizzoner meets with members of the FDNY and the labor unions to announce a new disability system that better protects firefighters hurt on the job at Ladder 1 in Manhattan on Monday.
Five days after Cuomo held a press conference touting the deal with smiling smoke eaters, de Blasio held his own gathering with many of the same FDNY leaders to praise the new state law increasing the benefits for those hurt on the job.
De Blasio, speaking in a lower Manhattan firehouse, said the deal, which the city pushed the state Legislature to pass, “gives greater security to our newest members of the FDNY.”
Cuomo last week signed the law that gives newly hired firefighters 75% of their salary if they are seriously injured on the job, the same benefit more senior members of the department have.
Those hired after 2009 were getting just 50% of their salaries if hurt on the job, the result of a budget-cutting provision made under Gov. David Paterson at the height of the global economic meltdown.
De Blasio, who thanked Cuomo for signing the bill, insisted that he was hosting a separate press conference because he was recognizing the “months and months of work” people had done with the Legislature to get it passed.
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