Record Nr.

UNINA9910826996403321

Autore

Steier Richard

Titolo

Enough blame to go around : the labor pains of New York City's public employee unions / / Richard Steier

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-4619-5147-X

1-4384-4956-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Excelsior editions

Disciplina

331.88/113517471

Soggetti

Collective bargaining - Government employees - New York (State)

Labor unions - Officials and employees

Labor unions - New York (State) - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Enough Blame to Go Around""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Acronyms and Abbreviations""; ""Part I: Unions on the Run""; ""Chapter 1: A New Sheriffâ€?s in Town; The Town Is Nottingham""; ""Why Afflict the Comfortable?""; ""More Fearful of Boss than of Members""; ""â€?Many Have Nowhere to Goâ€?""; ""â€?Did They Really Negotiate?â€?""; ""Soak Rich, Dampen Ambitions""; ""Chapter 2: Staring Down the Barrel of Reaganâ€?s Legacy""; ""Chipped Away at 50 Years of Gains""; ""The Billionaireâ€?s Club""; ""A Pass for Union Supporters""; ""Not Burning GOP Bridges""

""61 Percent Oppose Rights Loss""""â€?30 Years of Wage Suppressionâ€?""; ""Tax Cut As Good As a Raise?""; ""â€?Theyâ€?re Out for Bloodâ€?""; ""Chapter 3: The â€?Evil Geniusâ€? Loses One""; ""â€?City Wonâ€?t Suffer Moreâ€?""; ""Hoped for â€?Kinder, Gentler Mayorâ€?""; ""Not a Stealth Mayor""; ""â€?First Line of Defenseâ€?""; ""Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?""; ""Making the Law Work""; ""Chapter 4: â€?Christmas Bonusesâ€? and Other Wicked Fables""; ""Please Donâ€?t Annoy the Affluent""; ""Partly Based on a True Story""; ""City Actuary Proposed VSF""; ""A Mutual Desire for Change""

""â€?Traded Uncertainty for Certaintyâ€?""""No Skim if Funds Were Flush""; ""â€?Thatâ€?s Scoppettaâ€?s Teamâ€?""; ""Warns of Aging Force""; ""â€?Not Source of Cityâ€?s Problemâ€?""; ""A DROP from

Mayorâ€?s Narrative""; ""Chapter 5: Unions Finally Aroused by Mayorâ€?s Distortions""; ""Blinkers on for CityTime""; ""Unions Slow to Grasp Mayorâ€?s Aim""; ""â€?Telling One Lie after Anotherâ€?""; ""Tough to Get Laborâ€?s Side Out""; ""Chance to Win Over Public""; ""Chapter 6: Pensions a Beachhead for Class Warfare""; ""â€?Leave Seniors Eating Dog Foodâ€?""; ""Praise the Workers, Damn Union Bosses""

""Whacking the City""""Mayorâ€?s War on VSFs""; ""Another Wall Street Con?""; ""â€?Blaming the Victimâ€?""; ""Donâ€?t Punish Unionsâ€? Foresight""; ""Chapter 7: Tabs to Randi: Burn, Baby""; ""Letting the Testosterone Flow""; ""â€?We Expose, They Demonizeâ€?""; ""An Offer He Can Refuse""; ""Cutting Peer Program""; ""â€?Doesnâ€?t Consult Usâ€?""; ""A Phony Populism""; ""Chapter 8: Sister Randi Explains It All""; ""Merit Pay and Pension Gains""; ""National Union on Her Horizon?""; ""â€?Infantilizing Teachersâ€?""; ""â€?Raised Living Standardâ€?""; ""â€?Test Prep Not Life Prepâ€?""

""Mastered Give-and-Take""""â€?Not a Spectator Sportâ€?""; ""â€?Salt of the Earthâ€?""; ""â€?Like Night and Dayâ€?""; ""Chapter 9: OTB Workers Unwilling to Gamble on Defiance""; ""Stars Aligned Against Unions""; ""Principles vs. Pragmatism""; ""Cuomo the Dark Horse""; ""No Phone-Worker Assurances""; ""â€?Major Scoreâ€? for NYRA""; ""Chapter 10: â€?The Princeâ€? Incarnate in a Cuomovellian Gambit""; ""Subverted to the Greater Good?""; ""Some Got Haircut, Others Scalped""; ""â€?Played Us Against Each Otherâ€?""; ""Silver Didnâ€?t Ride to Rescue""; ""Shutdown Threat Worked""

""Not Reckoning with Adaptability""

Sommario/riassunto

"Veteran labor journalist Richard Steier explores the tensions between New York City's public employee unions, their critics, and city and state politicians"--Provided by publisher.