Long Island Business Journal
Ronald Bauer is Business Manager & Financial Secretary of IBEW Local 1049 on Long Island
Sometimes it feels like working men and women are always under attack – from anti-union employers, from Washington, from Albany.
Now, amid a concerted attack by climate change activists, Gov. Cuomo and some of our elected leaders in the State Capitol are pushing a plan that could hurt the modest pensions of state and municipal workers across New York.
As business manager/financial secretary of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1049, I can say that few, if any, of our more than 4,000 members would argue that man-made climate change is not real.
Long Islanders know first-hand how wild our weather can be – and it seems like storms here and across the country are getting more severe and occurring more often.
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