{"id":5214,"date":"2009-08-09T09:09:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T14:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5214"},"modified":"2009-08-09T09:09:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T14:09:28","slug":"bloomberg_the_candidate_for_fiscal_responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/08\/bloomberg_the_candidate_for_fiscal_responsibility.html","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg: The Candidate For Fiscal Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite granting DC37 four percent raises during an economic downturn, the mayor doesn’t even get the union’s support, making it money well spent<\/a>:<\/p>\n

New York’s largest city workers union is expected to endorse Controller William Thompson for mayor this week, labor insiders say — a stunning switch from four years ago, when it backed Mayor Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

The DC 37 endorsement would be a huge boost for Thompson’s underfunded campaign — not just for the volunteers and phone banks it can offer, but for the message it sends to other unions wary of bucking an incumbent mayor<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

DC 37 has 125,000 members and 50,000 retirees. Its members benefited from the generous 4% raises Bloomberg gave city unions last year, around the time he started his campaign to extend term limits so he could run again.<\/p>\n

But DC 37 and its executive director, Lillian Roberts, are unhappy with Bloomberg for threatening to lay off its members and for opposing a bill to lift residency requirements for its workers, union leaders say.<\/p>\n

The union bought subway ads this spring saying the city wastes $9 billion a year on private contracts that could be done by city workers. The ads blamed “City Hall,” not Bloomberg — but that could change.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it’s not just DC37: Both the City Council<\/a> and the Mayor’s office<\/a> gave staffers raises based on that contract . . . and the best thing is that somehow Howard Wolfson finds the time to criticize donations to Thompson’s campaign<\/a>. Unbelievable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite granting DC37 four percent raises during an economic downturn, the mayor doesn’t even get the union’s support, making it money well spent: New York’s largest city workers union is expected to endorse Controller William Thompson for mayor this week, labor insiders say — a stunning switch from four years ago, when it backed Mayor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}