This episode of New Yorkers at Work focuses on the unusual position of public sector workers and their unions. Teachers, welfare case workers, dentists, public sector union officials, and others talk about their struggles to earn the right to collective bargaining, the 1975 fiscal crisis, and their troubled relationships with prominent New York City government officials - Robert Moses, Fiorello La Guardia, and Robert F. Wagner.
Narrators Frederick O'Neal and Martha Greenhouse provide historical backdrop, speaking of the Condin-Wadlin and Taylor Acts and the Municipal Assistance Corporation, and interstitial prerecorded music is played
Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection
WNYC archives id: 92587