By Fay Abuelgasim 07/26/12

New York — Gov. Andrew Cuomo, fearing that a severe storm could wreak havoc with the city’s power system, intervened in a labor dispute between the Consolidated Edison utility and its workers and brokered a tentative agreement Thursday after a weeks-long standoff.

“You don’t want a storm hitting New York City without Con Ed being at full force,” Cuomo said at a news conference announcing that an agreement had been reached.

Terms of the four-year agreement were not disclosed, since it must be taken back to the union’s executive committee and membership and to Con Ed’s board. But Cuomo said it was “a good deal, I believe, for both sides.”

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