Selected Readings
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Selected Articles
Strike Three—you’re Out!
Revamping The New York State Taylor Law
In Response To Three Transport Workers’ Strikes
Erin Audra Russ
Source:
Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Full Issue
https://www.cardozojcr.com/volume-91-fall-2007
Specific Article
The New York State Taylor Law:
Does One Size Fit All?
Rebecca L. Marks
Source:
Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
(2020) Vol. 48: Iss. 3, Article 11.
Tailoring the Taylor Law:
Restoring a Balance of Power to Bargaining
Kate Montgomery Swearengen
Source:
Columbia Journal of Law & Social Problems
https://jlsp.law.columbia.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/213/files/2017/03/44-Swearengen.pdf
The Taylor Law at 50
John F. Wirenius
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
Volume 36 Issue 1 Article 2
9-1-2018
https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1645&context=hlelj
What is a Public Benefit Corporation (Authority)?
Local Government Handbook
CH 9 Excerpt
What is the Relationship between the Public Unions and the Government and the Contracts between them?
Local Government Handbook
CH 14 Excerpt
Who Does What in the New York State Government?
Local Government Handbook
CH 2 Excerpt
Books
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These books except Secrets of a Successful Organizer are slightly outside of the core focus of this website, hopefully you will still find them relevant enough to the broader picture of improving the situations we all find ourselves in that brought you here.
Secrets of a Successful Organizer by Alexandra Bradbury, Mark Brenner, and Jane Slaughter (via Labor Notes)
The Righteous Mind by Johnathan Haidt
Doing Good Better by William MacAskill
Give and Take by Adam Grant
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