Wednesday, August 08, 2018

CYNTHIA NIXON SUPPORTS RIGHT TO STRIKE FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES

This is from Democratic Party candidate for Governor Cynthia Nixon's Fair Economy for All platform:


Strengthen Unions
Cynthia has been a proud union member for over four decades. She believes it is in all working people’s interest in New York to support the work that unions do on behalf of their members. As Governor, Cynthia will resist federal, right-to-work attacks on organized labor by amending Taylor Law to allow public sector workers the right to strike and support organizing drives for larger and stronger unions and protect union jobs from abusive non-union contractors. As public sector workers across the country are under attack, Cynthia does not support undermining workers’ wages and benefits, unlike Governor Cuomo who added a Tier VI to the state pension system and reduced benefits for newly hired state and local public workers.


When I read this first thing this morning in the press, I had to look at it closely three times to actually believe that a serious candidate for governor on a major party is endorsing amending the Taylor Law to allow public employees in New York State the right to strike.

Cynthia's policy position should not be considered radical. International law gives workers free association rights. Back in 2011, a United Nations agency ruled that the Taylor Law prohibition of strikes by public employees violates core principles expressed in international law and a treaty ratified by the United States Senate.

This blog covered that decision at the time and we fully support the UN ruling that international law gives us a right to strike. Nixon's position on public sector workers being allowed to legally strike is legitimate.

Without an ability to withhold our labor, workers have little leverage in bargaining for better working conditions. The gains teachers made in NYC came in an era when we were not afraid to strike. Please don't tell me we have arbitration. Arbitration panels use pattern bargaining to settle disputes. They look at what other unions have received to guide them. Governments know they can just come to a contract agreement with a weak union and everyone else will be bound by its basic terms.

The mainstream press is already going nuts over Nixon's support for legalized public employee strikes. It is interesting how Andrew Cuomo apologist TWU President John Samuelsen agreed we should have a right to strike but said Nixon doesn't care about workers. It's also fascinating how TWU took the links to the UN decision off of its website.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

I’ll be voting for Cynthia. After all the crap that Cuomo has said and done against teachers, who will the UFT endorse? If they endorse Cuomo it will be because of his efforts to make opting out of paying union dues more difficult.

James Eterno said...

They will probably stay neutral in primary.

Pogue said...

Also...

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/21366/missouri_right_to_work_janus_prop_a_election

Anonymous said...

Who said the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money?

Anonymous said...

it's not censorship when the targeted posts are off topic or hate speech.
remember that kids.

Anonymous said...

This whole job is a lost cause

Anonymous said...

Isn't the problem with capitalism when the 99% run out of money...?

Anonymous said...

Public schools are socialist. Charters are capitalism in all its stench.

Anonymous said...

Ahhh the stench of free enterprise and the evil 1%....
Viva the Revolucion!
Amazing that educated people here don't recognize or at all appreciate the system responsible for lifting billions of people out of poverty and misery, and actually want to replace it with the system that has never caused anything but poverty and misery.
Y'all must look longingly at Venezuela and utopias like it throughout history.
And they teach this dogma to impressionable minds, in public schools.
Then they audaciously cite public schools as examples for socialist success stories, all evidence to the contrary.
Let's not let facts interfere with the dominant narrative I guess.
Stunning.
So glad I'm out of this socialist paradise soon, where 21-year-olds read at a 5th grade level after accruing credits in the single digits as they play on their Iphones (sufficient to digest the Manifesto and the types of comments seen above I suppose).
Really stunning.

Anonymous said...

Viva La Norway, my ill informed friend.

ed notes online said...

finland. France is more literate than us.
But how about the wonders of being 44th in infant mortality -- the wonders of capitalism. So all those people who are against abortion because they are "pro life" don't really give a shit about babies dying at birth.

Anonymous said...

They also don't care about giving them a good education, health care, and a chance to contribute to society.

Anonymous said...

Finland...Norway...homogeneous white countries cited by the woke.

"They also don't care about giving them..."

Rofl.

Anonymous said...

Public education in Norway, Denmark, Finland is far superior than it is in the US. (Actually it’s better in some third world countries) There arent homogeneous populations there for some time. There have always been significant minority indigenous people in Finland (Lapps that look Asian), Turks in Sweden and a variety of ethnic groups in Norway. Canada is also socialist. It is one of the most multicultural countries in the world and welcomes everyone. All the top universities are free there while the cheapest here costs about 80K a year. Healthcare is also free, while you can easily die in a waiting room here if you don’t have coverage. Canada is far ahead of the US. Capitalism should be considered a dirty word, but the 1% has many hoodwinked.

Anonymous said...

Lmao keep parroting the msm talking points. And teachers are supposed to instill critical thinking skills?
These leftists haven't even managed to teach reading or addition to young adults. Nixon or Cuomo? Let's draft a Linda Sarsour or David Hogg instead and really signal our virtue.
The above is not intended as hate speech.

Anonymous said...

Idiot speech.