Con Edison: The Problem? Not Workers… Look to Management.

Joel Sucher
7 min readSep 4, 2020

The outcry over Con-Ed’s response — or lack thereof — to the widespread and prolonged power outages wrought by tropical storm Isaias reinforced one simple and easily comprehensible fact: Con-Edison owes its allegiance to investors looking to make a profit and not to the ratepayers that pay for the bloated salaries of Con-Ed’s senior management (John McAvoy — the current boss — took in a cool…

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Joel Sucher

Joel Sucher has been producing documentaries for some fifty years and writing about subjects like surveillance, cinema, anarchism, foreclosure (among others).