Yes, the unions are losers in this deal - and they were already hurting before this setback.
I’m curious to see if Cortez gets re-elected; her grandstanding on the national stage isn’t helping her back in NYC. I watched the news last night as they were covering the Amazon withdrawal, and everyone was surprised - and concerned (even those who opposed it). Apparently they thought Amazon was going to negotiate and simply cough up the money; nobody seemed to think pulling out was even a remote possibility, and they were contemplating life without Amazon.
Today it has been practically removed from the news altogether (and much of our news is from NYC stations - I’m a dozen miles west of NYC); they must have realized it was a PR disaster for Cortez because it was an economic disaster for NYC and NY state - so it will be quickly forgotten. Instead the networks seemed to focus a LOT of time on a fairly routine apartment fire on this side of the Hudson in Fort Lee. I don’t believe there was a single fatality; it is obvious this is being used as filler/distraction instead of discussing the conclusion of what had been a leading story for months.
“Instead the networks seemed to focus a LOT of time on a fairly routine apartment fire on this side of the Hudson in Fort Lee.”
It must be a slow day. I used to live in rural NJ, and if we wanted news about a fire we rotated the antenna towards Philly! (NYC was if you wanted to watch the news about crime.)