Mayor Adams has yet to make good on an election year promise to boost wages for FDNY emergency medical services workers, with new information emerging about his embattled confidante Ingrid Lewis-Martin pushing hard against that vow while still at City Hall, the Daily News has learned.
On the 2021 campaign trail, Adams pledged he would as mayor see to it the FDNY’s emergency medical technicians and paramedics get paid as much as firefighters, who start with salaries around $54,000.
“For years our EMTs, paramedics & fire inspectors have been shamefully denied pay parity — that comes to an end when I become Mayor,” Adams, an ex-NYPD captain, tweeted on June 4, 2021, echoing calls from union leaders who say their members’ starting salaries of just about $36,000 have driven them into po