When Union Leaders Don’t Want to Strike
Some New York union leaders have joined Governor Cuomo against public-sector workers' right to strike. They're picking political favors over bottom-up organizing.
Transit workers on strike in New York City in 1966. Library of Congress
Why are some union leaders saying public-sector workers shouldn’t have the right to strike?
We expect it from conservatives like former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who told the Post that ending the state’s ban on public-sector strikes would “turn New York into Venezuela.”
But union leaders? You’d think they would recognize the danger of the moment we’re in, after the Supreme Court just dealt a devastating blow to public sector unions in Janus v. AFSCME. You’d think they would see the potential of this moment, too, after an exhilarating wave of teacher strikes (and with even a popular summer movie about call center workers on strike, Sorry to Bother You).
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