Group with Ties to City Hall Pols Backing Striking Workers is Also Lobbyist for Charter Communications

  

By Ginger Adams Otis

One of the city's most influential lobbying firms is playing both sides of the street in the Spectrum strike.

The low-profile but high-powered MirRam Group — with close ties to major players in City Hall who support the striking workers — is a registered lobbyist for Charter Communications, state records show.

Charter, which owns cable giant Spectrum, is embroiled in a grim labor battle with 1,800 members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The IBEW Local 3 members have been without a paycheck for seven months now and soon will lose unemployment benefits.

The techs went on strike March 28 over Charter’s demands to give up their health care and pension funds during contract negotiations.

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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)