The leaders of the city’s two largest public employee unions told a boisterous crowd of several thousand unions members Dec. 5 that it was time for the Charter Communications Company, owners of NY1, to settle with International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3, which represents tech who have been out on strike for almost two years.
The late-afternoon rally in front of Charter’s East 23rd St. headquarters extended for several blocks and was billed as a new offensive for unions statewide in the developed into a bitter stand-off between the nation’s fastest growing cable and internet provider and the 1,800 strikers.
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