QUOTABLE QUOTE
"[Am. Fed'n of State, County, & Mun. Employees'] District
Council 37's troubles began with an invitation to corruption. The [bosses]
who controlled the city's largest municipal union realized that, with a
little bit of help, they could convert DC37's assets into their own personal
ATM. The supposedly secure haven in which the union's 125,000 members had
deposited their hard-earned dues became a cookie jar."
-Mark Rosenthal, president of AFSCME Local 983 in N.Y.C. and founder of Committee for Real Change in DC37, in an May 22 Newsday oped.
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