DEMOCRACY SUFFERS AT DC 37
      A recent officers' election for a District Council 37 local highlighted much that is wrong with the city's largest municipal-employee union. Mark Rosenthal, the three-term incumbent president of Motor Vehicle Operators Local 983, won re-election with nearly 80 percent of the vote.
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TOUSSAINT GOES TOO FAR
      Roger Toussaint and John Samuelsen are fast becoming the Transport Workers Union Local 100 version of Roberts vs. Rosenthal. Their quarrel is a falling-out between more-natural allies that reached the point of no return when Mr. Samuelsen led the charge that prompted the seven-vote defeat of the contract Mr. Toussaint negotiated following the December 2005 transit strike.
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