Cyn: I’d let muni unions strike
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.”