I'm eager to see what comes from COGE. If the commission reflects a wide range of perspectives, and doesn't rule out approaches that have worked well elsewhere on ideological or partisan grounds, this commission could do an enormous amount of good.
One excellent place to start: a recent proposal from @nicholas_bagley (published in @VitalCityNYC), a center-left legal academic with sterling credentials, that speaks directly to the efficiency challenge facing local and state government, NYC included:
https://t.co/95E2opSges
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Why not limit public-sector unions to negotiating over wages? It’s not a fanciful proposal; that’s what Wisconsin did in 2011. Wisconsin’s law went too far in some respects and not far enough in others; its exception for police and firefighter unions was unprincipled, and it has now drawn a serious equal-protection challenge. But the idea has much to be said for it.
Whatever the right approach may be, Democrats who worry about public safety, urban schools and the fiscal health of our cities ought to be open to rethinking the bargain we struck with public-sector unions five decades ago. Just 7.3 million people belong to public-sector unions, or about 2% of the population. They deserve a voice in our politics. But they shouldn’t have the power to shout the rest of us down.
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