Yep, why pay union dues when all you get is a damaged heart and shortened life? When are the next general union elections anyways? Put em on notice. The buck is about to stop, along with your gravy train, Vito!
IMOYA MONROQUE: My name is Imoya Monroque. I have been in
New York for many years, the city that I love. I worked as an actor and I'm being discriminated against since the mandates. There are many actors who work background work or who work principal work or who work in theater. I am also going to speak on behalf of artists that the city claims are essential part of the city. They're the ones entertain, whether comedy or whatever, to get people to survive this pandemic mentally, whether they were watching TV or otherwise. We are not able to work, those who are unvaccinated.
Those who are unvaccinated, we are asking that the city investigate the union, the Screen Actors Guild, along with other unions because I listened today and I realized, the union is the roadblock. It's a loophole, it's all of that. They are claiming to represent us, but they are not. So looking at what the union is doing will be very important.
I'm about to lose my health insurance that I had accumulated before because I was right after the vaccine.
Mayor Eric Adams teased us and gave us hope by saying that entertainers and sports people would get exemptions. Who got the exemptions? The people with the fat bank accounts. Many of us do not have that, and we have had to turn to the city and it's an expense on the city to pay rent, to pay, to give food stamps and all of these things, which also puts a strain on having workers.
I have friends who work in the system who've lost their jobs as well. They now, the food stamp people, have to go for food stamps when the city is not paying them, in the meantime that they are asking for exemptions, they are not getting it, they're entitled to it, and there is no payment while they wait.
And I listen to the lady who was circling and circling and circling the globe. She has a job and she should lose that job. So that's what I want to say.
My body is my choice for abortion. My body is my choice for
sex reassignment, if I choose, and the city will pay for it! But my body is not my choice for what I don't want to put in it and participate in an experiment, the great experiment that is happening that is a clinic trial. I did not sign up for it. I need to be compensated for it. I'm losing pension, I'm losing insurance, I'm losing income, and the city cannot adequately provide what I need to survive.
GALE A. BREWER: Thank you.
IMOYA MONROQUE: Thank God I do not have a kid. I really feel it for these other people.
GALE A. BREWER: Thank you very much, I want to hear from the next speaker. Go ahead.
DANNY HULKOWER: Hi, my name is Danny Hulkower. I worked for the New York City Department of Sanitation, I was terminated for refusing to take the vaccine.
I think the hardest part of this is the fact that we could have actually ended all this, my department could have done it, but our union said to us, the mandates weren't going to happen, and then it went from, it's not going to happen, they can't do that to you, to, aw, just take it! Just take it!
It was disgusting the way that they handled it, and it was disgusting the way the city handled it. Because we don't even work around the public. You see us working, you don't come running up to us. I mean, it's not like we're interacting with people all day long. And there weren't even that many of us that the union would have had to fight for. But they just didn't bother.
And the worst of this is the fact that I begged my guy, I said, listen, fight this now. Whether or not you're going to take it, whether you believe in it, fight for it now, get, end this. Do not let them do it to you. Why? Because they're going to step up next and take something else from you.
And just yesterday morning the MLC [Municipal Labor Committee, umbrella organization of unions representing city employees] voted to slash 12-126 of the city admin code, which is the city subsidizing the health care for both retirees and current workers. So everybody is pretty much affected by this. And then what's going to happen is, that they're going to force you onto a single payer for-profit health service that is not going to benefit anybody but them. And this is going to go before the City Council soon, and nobody knows about this. I go, I talk to my guys, nobody knows about it.
We went to our union meeting yesterday to confront Harry, and these guysтАФ and there's no shop stewards here. I had information to give to these shop stewards. Nobody's there! Nobody knows what's happening. These guys are living in a tunnel vision, I'm just gonna retire and I'm outta here! Well, good luck with that, because the minute you try to go down to Florida and your healthcare service is gone, you're not going to have any options, you're going to be coming up to New York every time. You can still get GHI in Florida, there's still places to go, it's not going to work if the city has a specific plan just for everybody that's going to be for their benefit only.
4:13:10
[END]
# # #
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
See also the podcast interview posted June 28, 2022 with Danny Hulkower about the vaccine mandates and why he refuses to comply.
The unions, they have a lot to answer for, so many of them, their leadership, threw their unvaxxed members under the bus.
Vaxxed fared worse.
Yep, why pay union dues when all you get is a damaged heart and shortened life? When are the next general union elections anyways? Put em on notice. The buck is about to stop, along with your gravy train, Vito!
Relatedly:
New York City Committees on Oversight and Investigations & Civil Service and Labor
Gale A. Brewer, Chair, September 9, 2022
https://councilnyc.viebit.com/player.php?hash=U2mDNKAEkDJA
Source: https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/Calendar.aspx
TRANSCRIPT
4:08: 30
IMOYA MONROQUE: My name is Imoya Monroque. I have been in
New York for many years, the city that I love. I worked as an actor and I'm being discriminated against since the mandates. There are many actors who work background work or who work principal work or who work in theater. I am also going to speak on behalf of artists that the city claims are essential part of the city. They're the ones entertain, whether comedy or whatever, to get people to survive this pandemic mentally, whether they were watching TV or otherwise. We are not able to work, those who are unvaccinated.
Those who are unvaccinated, we are asking that the city investigate the union, the Screen Actors Guild, along with other unions because I listened today and I realized, the union is the roadblock. It's a loophole, it's all of that. They are claiming to represent us, but they are not. So looking at what the union is doing will be very important.
I'm about to lose my health insurance that I had accumulated before because I was right after the vaccine.
Mayor Eric Adams teased us and gave us hope by saying that entertainers and sports people would get exemptions. Who got the exemptions? The people with the fat bank accounts. Many of us do not have that, and we have had to turn to the city and it's an expense on the city to pay rent, to pay, to give food stamps and all of these things, which also puts a strain on having workers.
I have friends who work in the system who've lost their jobs as well. They now, the food stamp people, have to go for food stamps when the city is not paying them, in the meantime that they are asking for exemptions, they are not getting it, they're entitled to it, and there is no payment while they wait.
And I listen to the lady who was circling and circling and circling the globe. She has a job and she should lose that job. So that's what I want to say.
My body is my choice for abortion. My body is my choice for
sex reassignment, if I choose, and the city will pay for it! But my body is not my choice for what I don't want to put in it and participate in an experiment, the great experiment that is happening that is a clinic trial. I did not sign up for it. I need to be compensated for it. I'm losing pension, I'm losing insurance, I'm losing income, and the city cannot adequately provide what I need to survive.
GALE A. BREWER: Thank you.
IMOYA MONROQUE: Thank God I do not have a kid. I really feel it for these other people.
GALE A. BREWER: Thank you very much, I want to hear from the next speaker. Go ahead.
IMOYA MONROQUE: Thank you.
4:11:11
# # #
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
You can find Imoya Monroque's Instagram at
https://www.instagram.com/imoyamonroque/
Good luck getting compensation. They are too strapped with disability payments that they refuse to recognize are from the jab.
And another testimony complaining about another union.
New York City Committees on Oversight and Investigations & Civil Service and Labor
Gale A. Brewer, Chair, September 9, 2022
https://councilnyc.viebit.com/player.php?hash=U2mDNKAEkDJA
Source: https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/Calendar.aspx
TRANSCRIPT
4:11:16
DANNY HULKOWER: Hi, my name is Danny Hulkower. I worked for the New York City Department of Sanitation, I was terminated for refusing to take the vaccine.
I think the hardest part of this is the fact that we could have actually ended all this, my department could have done it, but our union said to us, the mandates weren't going to happen, and then it went from, it's not going to happen, they can't do that to you, to, aw, just take it! Just take it!
It was disgusting the way that they handled it, and it was disgusting the way the city handled it. Because we don't even work around the public. You see us working, you don't come running up to us. I mean, it's not like we're interacting with people all day long. And there weren't even that many of us that the union would have had to fight for. But they just didn't bother.
And the worst of this is the fact that I begged my guy, I said, listen, fight this now. Whether or not you're going to take it, whether you believe in it, fight for it now, get, end this. Do not let them do it to you. Why? Because they're going to step up next and take something else from you.
And just yesterday morning the MLC [Municipal Labor Committee, umbrella organization of unions representing city employees] voted to slash 12-126 of the city admin code, which is the city subsidizing the health care for both retirees and current workers. So everybody is pretty much affected by this. And then what's going to happen is, that they're going to force you onto a single payer for-profit health service that is not going to benefit anybody but them. And this is going to go before the City Council soon, and nobody knows about this. I go, I talk to my guys, nobody knows about it.
We went to our union meeting yesterday to confront Harry, and these guysтАФ and there's no shop stewards here. I had information to give to these shop stewards. Nobody's there! Nobody knows what's happening. These guys are living in a tunnel vision, I'm just gonna retire and I'm outta here! Well, good luck with that, because the minute you try to go down to Florida and your healthcare service is gone, you're not going to have any options, you're going to be coming up to New York every time. You can still get GHI in Florida, there's still places to go, it's not going to work if the city has a specific plan just for everybody that's going to be for their benefit only.
4:13:10
[END]
# # #
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
See also the podcast interview posted June 28, 2022 with Danny Hulkower about the vaccine mandates and why he refuses to comply.
https://nooneyouknow.substack.com/p/new-york-mandate-podcast-ep-8-sanitation#details