Labor leader Victor Gotbaum dies; Brooklyn native helped NYC in 1970s crisis
Victor Gotbaum, an influential New York labor leader from Brooklyn who both fought City Hall and helped it survive its 1970s fiscal crisis, has died, his son said Monday. He was 93.
Gotbaum died Sunday at his Manhattan home, Noah Gotbaum said. He said the cause of his father’s death hasn’t been determined.
As the leader of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees’ District Council 37 in New York, Gotbaum was the voice of the nation’s biggest municipal union when the city faced the threat of bankruptcy in the mid-1970s.