Enough Blame to Go Around, livre ebook

Since 1980 Richard Steier has had a unique vantage point to observe the gains, losses, and struggles of municipal labor unions in New York City. He has covered those unions and city government as a reporter and labor columnist for the New York Post and, since 1998, as editor and featured columnist of the Chief-Leader, a century-old independent newspaper that covers city and state government in greater detail than today's mainstream news organizations. Drawing from his column with the Chief-Leader, "Razzle Dazzle," Enough Blame to Go Around describes in vivid terms how the changed economy has drastically altered the city's labor landscape, and why it has been difficult for municipal unions to adapt. There can be no doubt, he writes, that public employee unions have contributed to the problems that confront them today, including corruption and failed leadership. But at the same time and for all their flaws, he believes unions represent the best chance for ordinary people to receive fair economic treatment.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Unions on the Run
A New Sheriff’s in Town; The Town Is Nottingham
Staring Down the Barrel of Reagan’s Legacy
The ‘Evil Genius’ Loses One
‘Christmas Bonuses’ and Other Wicked Fables
Unions Finally Aroused by Mayor’s Distortions
Pensions a Beachhead for Class Warfare
Tabs to Randi: Burn, Baby
Sister Randi Explains It All
OTB Workers Unwilling to Gamble on Defiance
‘The Prince’ Incarnate in a Cuomovellian Gambit
With Leaders Like These…
Judge Speaks Loud for McLaughlin’s Victims
A School Bus Frame-Up DOE Won’t Talk About
Let’s Not Strike for Spike
Busfellas’ Past Helped Mayor to Break Strike
Police Unions in All Their Complexities

Enough Blame to Go Around
A Tough Guy Gets Undressed
Savage Steps Out Boldly
Giuliani’s Toxic Cynicism
The Demise of a Once-Great Union
Targets: Friends of Rudy
Gotbaum’s Revised History
Stern Reaction for DC 37
Delusions of Entitlement
An Absence of Leadership
Sad Tale of Two Charlies
She Didn’t Stick to Story
DC 37, after the Gold Rush
Butler’s Banana Republic
Roberts Is Queen of Denial
Roberts Wins, DC 37 Loses
Elegy for a Flawed Fighter
Same Old Song for DC 37
The Rise and Fall of a Militant Whose Vision Went Sour
Toussaint’s Quiet Revolution
The World v. Mr. Toussaint
Hard to Be Toussaint in City
For Toussaint, Power Is All That’s Left
What Killed Roger Rebel? A Self-Inflicted Wound
Epilogue
Index