Joshua B. Freemanis a professor of history at Queens College, City University of New Yorkand the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the former executive officer of the Graduate Center's history department... (wikipedia)
I'd be even more worried if I belonged to DC 37 or another public-employee union - the idea that you could actually make a pretty radical change in the structure of pension benefits so that the next generations of workers will have inferior benefits.
There is much more flexibility to work from home today.
We needed our parks mowed. We needed our garbage picked up.
The governor's always been playing a complicated game because, although I assume he checked off on the deal, he then denounced his own deal almost immediately.
This has been a long, strange journey with many unexpected twists, and the final outcome is still far from clear.
It's really a very unpredictable situation ahead of us. It is not going to get resolved real quick.
Clearly the MTA was not willing to concede that prior to the strike.
The economy and the budget were in much worse shape than today.
It's also possible that this will drag on past the November election.
There's a lot at stake, I think, for groups beyond TWU.
It's just so much better than being at school sometimes where you're just so busy with work and somebody yelling at you if you did something wrong, it's just great to come out and have fun.