The firefighters union is planning to blitz City Council members Monday with fliers urging them to reinstate disability benefits for more recent hires, many of whom are minorities.
The mailer — emblazoned with the faces of 12 Asian, black, Latino and female firefighters — proclaims, “I am not a political football . . . I deserve real benefits.”
The Uniformed Firefighters Association has been pressing the council for weeks to vote on a resolution that would restore 75 percent disability benefits for firefighters hired after July 2009, when a change cut on-the-job benefits to 50 percent of their salaries.