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Political Impotence . . . Union-Made: Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York City’s Public Employee Unions

Political Impotence . . . Union-Made: Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York... 104 New Labor Forum 23(3) I tend to respond by saying that public Political Impotence . . . employee unions are not all that strong. Even Union-Made in New York City—a quintessential public- Steier, Richard. Enough Blame to Go Around: The employee union town—we have seen, over the Labor Pains of New York City’s Public Employee last twenty years, several contracts involving Unions. Albany, NY: Excelsior Editions, 2014. large public sector unions with no raises; fre- ISBN 978-1-4384-4954-8. quent reductions in health benefits; and the cre- ation of new, less-generous pension tiers. We Reviewed by: John Krinsky also have seen, since the 1970s’ fiscal crisis, a DOI: 10.1177/1095796014542158 growing sector of non-unionized non-profit workers, volunteers, workfare workers, and oth- ers who are doing work once done by municipal employees. The result is that my right-wing colleague argues for union success, and I argue for union failure. Something is not right with the world. Something just got better, though. I refer to the publication of Richard Steier’s Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York City’s Public Employee Unions. Steier, editor-in-chief of the Chief/Civil-Service Leader, the independently published civil ser- vice weekly, has collected thirty-six of his http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Political Impotence . . . Union-Made: Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York City’s Public Employee Unions

Krinsky, John
New Labor Forum , Volume 23 (3): 3 – Sep 1, 2014
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104 New Labor Forum 23(3) I tend to respond by saying that public Political Impotence . . . employee unions are not all that strong. Even Union-Made in New York City—a quintessential public- Steier, Richard. Enough Blame to Go Around: The employee union town—we have seen, over the Labor Pains of New York City’s Public Employee last twenty years, several contracts involving Unions. Albany, NY: Excelsior Editions, 2014. large public sector unions with no raises; fre- ISBN 978-1-4384-4954-8. quent reductions in health benefits; and the cre- ation of new, less-generous pension tiers. We Reviewed by: John Krinsky also have seen, since the 1970s’ fiscal crisis, a DOI: 10.1177/1095796014542158 growing sector of non-unionized non-profit workers, volunteers, workfare workers, and oth- ers who are doing work once done by municipal employees. The result is that my right-wing colleague argues for union success, and I argue for union failure. Something is not right with the world. Something just got better, though. I refer to the publication of Richard Steier’s Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York City’s Public Employee Unions. Steier, editor-in-chief of the Chief/Civil-Service Leader, the independently published civil ser- vice weekly, has collected thirty-six of his

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