The New York Times, August 16, 2011, Tuesday

The New York Times

August 16, 2011, Tuesday

The New York Times (full article)

In Albany, a Labor Pact Without Attacks on Unions

By THOMAS KAPLAN

Richard W. Hurd, a professor of labor relations at Cornell, said New York shared the same basic characteristic as other states where governors went to war with public unions — namely, a budget to balance in the short term and large budget shortfalls projected over the longer term. He said the different approaches were determined by the governors’ differing political ideologies.

“We had a governor who chose to respect the institution of collective bargaining and worked to negotiate a contract with the union that would address those problems,” Professor Hurd said, “and by all appearances, he has been successful with that.”