HEALTH BENEFITS ALERT
It has come to our attention that Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Insurance Provider,
has recently broken off their relationship with ‘Walgreens’ Pharmacy. Walgreen’s
Pharmacy will no longer accept Blue Cross as an Insurance Provider. If you have
Blue Cross Blue Shield as your Insurance Carrier and use ‘Walgreen’s Pharmacy’,
you must transfer your prescriptions to another pharmacy. To the best of our knowledge,
‘Walgreens’ is the only Pharmacy not accepting Blue Cross. If you encounter any
other Pharmacies that will not accept your insurance, please contact the BPPA as
soon as possible.
ARBITRATION AWARD
BPPA WINS ARGUMENT OVER TRAINING DAYS
Today, January 3, 2012, we received written notification and confirmation from :
Roberta Golick, Esq, Arbitrator in the case of BPPA vs City of Boston in regards
to our argument that the City/Department was in Violation of Article IX, Section
3 F Training, by not observing the written language and allowing our members time
off earned at training to be used at the Officers discretion with the accepted exceptions
of: ‘First Night, Marathon Monday & Caribbean Festival’.
In layman’s terms, anytime you earn a W/I for Training, you can utilize the W/O
for that day anytime you choose with the above three stated exceptions.
ACTUAL AWARD
The City violated the collective bargaining agreement when, in July 2010, it denied
Officer O’Rourke, “(the aggrieved party)”, the compensatory day he requested. Going
forward, the City is directed to comply with Section 3(F) of the agreement. Signed
By; Roberta Golick, Esq. , Arbitrator
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