Tasini: Labor must reject Pat Lynch’s bitter bile

Unions have a special duty to help the city heal
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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.

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In 1967, King gave a powerful speech at Riverside Church explaining his decision to speak out against the Vietnam War at a time when many people said he should remain quiet. He said, “A time comes when silence is betrayal.”

Labor’s silence now is a betrayal.

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