New York Post

Cyn: I’d let muni unions strike

- Carl Campanile

Cynthia Nixon dropped a bombshell in the governor’s race on Tuesday, saying she would amend the Taylor Law, which prohibits public employees from striking.

“As governor, Cynthia [right] will resist federal, right-to-work attacks on organized labor by amending [the] Taylor Law to allow public-sector workers the right to strike and support organizing drives for larger and stronger unions,” Nixon said in releasing a plan for economic developmen­t.

A spokeswoma­n confirmed that teachers, transit workers and sanita- tion workers would be allowed to strike under Nixon’s proposal and added that “she is open to exempting certain essential employees” — such as police officers and firefighte­rs.

The anti-strike law was put in place because in past decades, municipal work stoppages had crippled the city.

The proposal — coming with most unions backing Nixon’s opponent, two-term incumbent Gov. Cuomo, in the Sept. 13 Democratic primary — didn’t do much to sway union leaders.

John Samuelsen, whose Transport Workers Union is backingg Cuomo, said the Nixon pro-opportunis­m posal smacked . . . of I don’t “political think a she cares a rat’s ass aboutut workers,” he said.

Meanwhile, Nixon on Tues-esday visited a key project inn . Cuomo’s scandal-plagued Buf-Buffalo Billion program.

She held a press conference outside Tesla’s Solar City factory in Buffalo while discussing economic developmen­t and the “cesspool of corruption.”

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