25 Years in 25 Days (2005): Transit Strike

This fall, the Brian Lehrer Show is marking 25 years of Brian at WNYC with a year-by-year look at stories that mattered from 1989 to 2014. Find the full schedule and lots more here.

TWU Local 100 went out on strike right before Christmas in 2005.  Steven Greenhouse, New York Times labor and workplace correspondent, and author of The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker (Anchor, 2009)  looks at how organized labor has fared since --the roll-back of public worker benefits in Wisconsin in 2011 vs. the election of union-backed Bill de Blasio in NYC last year, the decline of private sector unions and the recent push to organize service workers.