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-----Original Message----- From: Portside moderator [mailto:moderator at PORTSIDE.ORG] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 7:42 PM To: PORTSIDE at LISTS.PORTSIDE.ORG Subject: Labor Must Reject Pat Lynch’s Bitter Bile
Labor Must Reject Pat Lynch’s Bitter Bile <https://portside.org/2014-12-30/labor-must-reject-pat-lynch’s-bitter-bile>
Jonathan Tasini December 30, 2014 New York Daily News <http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/jonathan-tasini-labor-reject-lynch-bitter-bile-article-1.2060012>
Unions have a special duty to help the city heal. We confront a communitywide moral crisis. A simple, broad labor statement of unity — supporting the mayor’s efforts, protesters’ rights in a democracy and the good work of the overwhelming majority of decent police officers, and calling for a new campaign to regulate handguns like the one used to murder two policemen and a citywide dialogue on racism and policing — is in order.
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The president of a large police union in New York City blamed protesters for the murder of two police officers. But that's not all, Pat Lynch also says the Mayor of New York is responsible too., www.nationofchange.org <http://www.nationofchange.org/2014/wp-content/uploads/patlynchcomments122114.jpg> ,
As the leader of the police union has raged, incited and poured rhetorical gasoline on a tense city, every other significant labor union has gone mute. Not one of them seems able, or willing, to speak up and blunt the din unleashed by the PBA at the mayor, protesters and just about anyone who doesn’t share Pat Lynch’s world-view.
That’s unconscionable and threatens to undermine labor in the months and years ahead.
