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Commentary By Nicole Gelinas

Union Deal Is Bad for Everyone, from Taxpayers to NYC Employees

Economics Tax & Budget

The best thing to say about Mayor Adams’ first-ever labor deal, tentatively agreed last week with the city’s nearly 100,000-strong civilian workforce, is that it could be worse. Except: It will get worse. 

Adams and the chief of the District Council 37 union, Henry Garrido, announced Friday they had come to a five-and-a-half-year labor deal, awarding raises to everyone from school-cafeteria workers to crossing guards to children’s-services social workers. 

Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post

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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.

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