As the first Democratic mayor in 20 years for the nation’s largest city prepares to take office, headaches from the previous administration threaten to make the new mayor’s first days in office cantankerous and problematic. New York City’s 300,000 municipal workers have been working without a contract for as many as four years and are currently
Bloomberg’s Baggage Likely To Put Di Blasio On The Hot Seat Immediately
The new mayor will have to work fast to confront a looming deficit of $2 billion and
300,000 city workers demanding $7 billion in retroactive pay.