Mayoral candidates push for union endorsements
Photo credit: Steven Sunshine | Mayor Michael Bloomberg photographed with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn at a news conference.
New York City municipal employees -- from firefighters to clerks -- are working under terms of union contracts that have expired, some as far back as 2009. This settlement backlog is expected to become the next mayor's problem.
And a problem it promises to be. According to the city's Independent Budget Office, a deal to hike wages by say, 2 percent across the workforce in each of two years...
