50 Years of Public Employees Unionizing

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 9, 2017

William Herbert, distinguished lecturer at Hunter College, City University of New York, and the Executive Director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, and Joshua Freeman, distinguished professor of history at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, discusses 50 years of the Taylor Law, which grants public employees the right to unionize. Herbert and Freeman trace the history of how the Taylor Law came to be and what has happened with its implementation. 

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