Democrat and Chronicle, August 21, 2011, Sunday

Democrat and Chronicle

August 21, 2011, Sunday

Democrat and Chronicle (full article)

In N.Y., labor deals get done with little acrimony

"In New York, there were no frontal attacks on the structure of collective bargaining," said Lee Adler, a public-sector labor expert and professor at Cornell University's Industrial Labor Relations School. "There was not an effort to make an ideological attack on unions as something that are bad, or that unions are something that harm the state's economy or citizens."

That respect for unions wasn't evident in other states this year, Adler said.