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What Do Unions Want? When New York State’S Public Employee Unions Turned Down The Right To Strike, Marc Kagan
What Do Unions Want? When New York State’S Public Employee Unions Turned Down The Right To Strike, Marc Kagan
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In a 1977 package of proposed revisions of New York State’s “Taylor Law,” which governs public employee labor-management relations and prohibits work stoppages, unions were offered the right to strike, while managers would have gained the right to unilaterally change contract terms at expiration. In effect, this deal would have made state labor relations more similar to bargaining in private industry. Offered an expanded ability to strike, the municipal unions instead opted for defensive stability.
Public Workers, William A. Herbert
Public Workers, William A. Herbert
Publications and Research
This chapter on New York City public sector labor history appeared in a book edited by Joshua B. Freeman that was a companion to the exhibition City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York. The exhibition was organized by and presented at the Museum of the City of New York.