In 1958, Democratic NYC Mayor Robert F. Wagner signed the "Little Wagner Act" into law, permitting municipal employees to unionize in NYC for the first time. Ironically, the mayor, whose father (a legendary pro-labor Democratic U.S. Senator) had sponsored the federal Wagner Act back during the Roosevelt Administration in 1935, had initially resisted such unionization.
http://www.laborarts.org/collections/item.cfm?itemid=337
Fifty years later, through their effective fund-raising, campaign organization, and lobbying, public employee labor unions now own and control the Democrat-controlled New York State Legislature, the Democrat-controlled New York City Council, and Democratic Governor David Paterson. The people of the State of New York have no one in elective office to protect them from labor union overreaching, with the possible exception of an overmatched Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The experiment in unionization of public employees in New York clearly has failed. Our governments now serve the labor unions, not the people of New York. It's time to repeal the Little Wagner Act.
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