«In hindsight, it's easy to see the whole thing was just a scam, a cynical ploy to drive a radical agenda using the muscle and
money of organized labor while widely ignoring the actual concerns of New York's working people.
Not exact matches
None completely stopped contributing to them, but the redirection
of money from
organized labor in the last election cycle foreshadowed some
of the top debates in this year's session.
Speaking at a breakfast for
organized labor workers in May 2014, Heastie remarked, «Raising the minimum wage for
organized workers is the key to a good economy for all
of us — when workers have more
money, they put it right back into the state's economy.»
The most damaging area
of privatization for
organized labor is education, because the unions lose serious
money when teachers take jobs in non-unionized, non-public schools.