{"id":250199,"date":"2026-06-01T00:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T00:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250199\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T00:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T00:06:08","slug":"new-york-unions-squeeze-the-public-worse-than-any-other-mafia-with-politicians-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250199\/","title":{"rendered":"New York unions squeeze the public worse than any other mafia \u2014 with politicians’ help"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mafia-like unions are pummeling New York \u2014 and the political elites are in league with them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The obscene new contract<\/a> for 22,000 unionized city hotel workers will give housekeepers a $77,113 starting salary, higher than cops or teachers. <\/p>\n

The Hotel Association deal with the powerful Hotel and Gaming Trades Council averted a strike threat that had already spooked visitors who were thinking of coming here for America 250 celebrations<\/a> and the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n

The hotel owners could afford it because they\u2019ve worked with the unions to get politicians like City Council Speaker Julie Menin to hamstring any competition from new hotels, non-union ones and Airbnb \u2014 all of which reduces tourism, undercutting the rest of the city economy.<\/p>\n

Last month, 3,500 unionized Long Island Rail Road employees held an entire region hostage with a three-day strike that ended with some of the nation\u2019s highest-paid public employees winning even higher pay<\/a> without any reform of the obscenely generous work rules that rob the public blind.<\/p>\n

On the state level, Gov. Kathy Hochul caved to unions<\/a> by rolling back Tier 6 reforms that had reduced taxpayer pension-funding costs for public employees hired after 2012, a multibillion-dollar giveaway to well-paid workers who\u2019d happily taken jobs with less-generous benefits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Time and again, regular folks lose as these labor mobs feast, because elected \u201cpublic servants\u201d work against the public interest.<\/p>\n

Forget about Hochul\u2019s claim that she stood up against the LIRR unions\u2019 blackmail \u2014 in the end they got most of what they wanted.<\/p>\n

And in an indictment of the state of the Republican Party, only Long island Assemblyman Michael Fitzpatrick voiced opposition to the Tier 6 pension giveaway.<\/p>\n

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Hochul\u2019s GOP challenger, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, was largely silent \u2014\u00a0 that is, when he wasn\u2019t shilling for the LIRR union<\/a> goons.<\/p>\n

And Menin and the rest of the council leap to please the hotel workers union.<\/p>\n

The unions offer campaign cash, endorsements and well-paid volunteers to canvass for the politicians who carry their water.<\/p>\n

Once a drive for social justice, the labor movement has become a corrupt special interest that drives ever-growing injustice \u2014 a cancer on society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mafia-like unions are pummeling New York \u2014 and the political elites are in league with them.\u00a0 The obscene…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13382,1626,304,810,19077,426,85688,9,24,55,54,56,299,240,3555],"class_list":["post-250199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-airbnb","tag-bruce-blakeman","tag-editorial","tag-hotels","tag-julie-menin","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-lirr-strike","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-opinion","tag-pensions","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}