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Letters to the Editor June 22, 2007
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Letters to the Editor: Toussaint Not Playing Politics
To the Editor:
      The Chief misses the point not once but twice in the article on track inspections last week. First, and most importantly, the article almost completely ignored the real news about track safety. And second, the article got who is playing politics wrong.
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A CHANGED TOUSSAINT
To the Editor:
      I have been reading the back-and-forth in The Chief over the last few weeks between Roger Toussaint and his union opponents. The letters demonstrate that history does repeat itself. It wasn't that long ago when Toussaint was the reformer who was looking to change things and was fighting against a...
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TOUSSAINT SYNDROME
To the Editor:
      Over the last couple of weeks there have been a few Transport Workers Union Local 100 members writing to The Chief to defend Roger Toussaint. First, John McCarthy, then Percival Thomas and lastly, Eladio Diaz. Each and every one of them has gained financially from their support of Toussaint. Eladi...
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PAY DUES, SAVE TWU
To the Editor:
      As a shop steward for TWU Local 100, I say there's no way in hell that we can let our union go down the drain. Taking away our union's financial lifeblood by removing dues check-off is an attack on our union's right to exist. We not only have a right to a union; I say we have the right to strike.
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'HERO' WAS ASLEEP
To the Editor:
      I would like to echo the comments made by Al and Sally Regenhard in their letter to the editor, "Giuliani's No Hero of 9/11" (June 15 issue). Sadly forgotten as Giuliani portrays himself as the "Hero of 9/11" is his failure to respond in the days following the 1993 World Trade Center attack, and ...
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COP FEUD HURTS CITY
To the Editor:
      I guess that $25,000 entry level salary is attracting some interesting characters to the New York Police Department. Former Officer Frank Ranieri has been charged with paying underage girls thousands of dollars to stick pins in their buttocks.
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CONNECTED PROTECTED
To the Editor:
      The recent retirement of Jerry Cammarata from Coney Island Hospital and the meager fine and loss of annual leave and sick leave for a conflict of interest that let him be paid by both the hospital and a hospital union shows again the Good Old Boys Network.
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