Andrew Cuomo's Unfinished Business

The scandals surrounding New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo are hip-deep and rising as the Democratic Party powerbroker turned powderpuff rushes for the exits on Aug. 24.

Before he gets away, let’s add leaving hundreds of workers and their families to the longest ongoing strike in the country to the list of unpardonable sins.

In 2016, Charter/Spectrum, the country’s No. 2 cable provider, wrapped up its multi-million-dollar acquisition of Time-Warner Cable and immediately went to work busting the union.

It did this by trashing negotiated employee pension and healthcare plans, provoking 1,800 trade unionists to strike.

IBEW Local 3 Business Manager Chris Erikson said, “We had a great [40-year] relationship with Time-Warner…and for those 40 years, employees enjoyed the benefits that every one of us strives to have — a defined benefits pension, good healthcare, healthcare in retirement.”

https://www.dcreport.org/2021/08/18/andrew-cuomos-unfinished-business/