A relatively short diary for now. Many of us have been horrified--if not surprised--by the unhinged venom that has spilled out of the mouth of the head of the police union in NYC. To me, as I wrote previously, there has been a failure of the labor movement to confront his bile. So, I discussed this in an op-ed today in the NY Daily News.
Here is the beginning in the piece titled "Labor must reject Pat Lynch’s bitter bile" and, as important, the subtitle "Unions have a special duty to help the city heal":
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.
The rest of the piece is here.