Professor Jenny Breen discussed with Spectrum News the application of the Public Employees’ Fair Employment Act, or Taylor Law, in the ongoing litigation surrounding the state Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association strike from earlier this year.
“While the strike is understood to be the key economic weapon for private sector workers, the people who wrote the Taylor Law felt like strikes were not appropriate in the public sector. So public sector employees in New York state are banned from striking under the Taylor Law, and there are pretty harsh penalties for striking workers when they violate that prohibition,” says Breen.