Emergency medical technicians are fuming after the NYC Council approved on Monday a pay increase for app-based grocery-delivery workers that leaves the city’s medical first responders earning less than most deliveristas.
FDNY EMTs, city workers who respond to life-saving emergencies ranging from heart attacks and seizures to stabbings and shootings, are the busiest, but likely most impoverished first responders in the country, according to Oren Barzilay, president of FDNY EMS Local 2507, the union that represents the city’s EMTs and paramedics.
