Mark Rosenthal is the president of Local 983 of District Council 37 – which for those of you who don’t speak “Big Labor” is the largest municipal government employees’ union in New York City. He’s also the subject of one of the most embarrassing feature stories we’ve ever read – courtesy of The New York Post.
According to the Post‘s report, Rosenthal – who weighs more than 400 pounds – doesn’t do much to earn his $156,000 annual salary (or the estimated $1,400 in additional monthly food expenses he incurs on the back of workers). In fact the description of his typical day sounds positively “dreamy.”
“He eats lunch when he arrives at work at 2 p.m. Then, like clockwork, he goes to sleep with a cup of soda on the table and the straw in it,” one union bureaucrat tells the Post. “Then he wakes up, looks at his watch and says, ‘I have to get out before the traffic gets bad.’ He’s usually out by 4 p.m. after being at the office two hours.”
Ah, the American dream …
Rosenthal offered up two excuses for his snoozefests, the first being that it’s normal for influential executives like him to take “power naps.” Okay. His second excuse? That he’s taking pain medication for backaches that makes him tired.
Why does he have backaches? Because his fat ass fell through a chair at a McDonald’s restaurant a year ago … one of several embarrassing incidents related to his morbid obesity.
“(Rosenthal) last made embarrassing headlines in 2009, when he inspired a City Council bill requiring jumbo-size ambulances for morbidly obese patients after he had a stroke at City Hall,” the Post story adds.
Wow … and of course in addition to his girth-related issues, Rosenthal is also facing more conventional allegations of corruption and cronyism (we know … hard to imagine in a New York City labor union).
As we’ve noted previously, unions are cancers on the American economy that need to be cut out completely. And they are being cut out – at least by the private sector. According to the latest U.S. Department of Labor data, only 6.6 percent of the private sector is unionized. All told, only 11.3 percent of the nation’s workforce is unionized – a 97-year low.
Part of the reason?
Corpulent, corrupt bureaucrats like Rosenthal … who remind workers that the abuses of their union “leaders” are every bit as bad (if not worse) than the abuses of “management.”
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Sounds like Catherine Templeton’s work ethic, without the booze.
Hey Dickturd, Let’s see your proof of that. Otherwise, shut the hell up! Or since you like to make allegations, just tell everyone who you are and back them up. Yeah, didn’t think so.
Her notoriously short workday, combined with her refusal to work in Columbia, has been well documented on this website. As has her love for a drink or two. Do you own research, tough guy.
…And now we know that Ms.Templeton browses this website. Get back to work taping shit to the walls, Catherine.
Sounds like Catherine Templeton’s work ethic, without the booze.
Hey Dickturd, Let’s see your proof of that. Otherwise, shut the hell up! Or since you like to make allegations, just tell everyone who you are and back them up. Yeah, didn’t think so.
Her notoriously short workday, combined with her refusal to work in Columbia, has been well documented on this website. As has her love for a drink or two. Do you own research, tough guy.
…And now we know that Ms.Templeton browses this website. Get back to work taping shit to the walls, Catherine.
This is an interesting (to me) article about 900 pounds (combined) who lost over half of their combined weight. The video is also interesting.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2332672/From-food-addicts-fighting-fit-Obese-twins-weighed-combined-900lbs-lose-half-body-weight-just-year.html
It is interesting to me too-hope they don’t fall off the wagon after all that hard work. There is nothing like getting into the dating game to give them the incentive to keep their weight off.
This is an interesting (to me) article about twins, brother and sister, who weighed 900 pounds (combined) who lost over half of their combined weight. The video is also interesting.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2332672/From-food-addicts-fighting-fit-Obese-twins-weighed-combined-900lbs-lose-half-body-weight-just-year.html
It is interesting to me too-hope they don’t fall off the wagon after all that hard work. There is nothing like getting into the dating game to give them the incentive to keep their weight off.
Sic Willie: Does it not sound strangely authoritarian for a libertarian to advocate the total destruction of labor unions? What happened to free choice by a free people? Who gets to decide that people don’t have the right to organize and to seek to bargain collectively? I’m not asking about states’ rights here. I’m talking about the rights of the individual in our society. The last time I checked, libertarianism was the opposite of authoritarianism. Am I missing something here? And “Yes, a brain.” is not a good enough answer.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/WeThePeople.SC/permalink/422126411218043/
Agreed. Get gov’t out of labor unions(and labor unions out of gov’t) and let the chips fall where they may.
In a free/voluntary society no one gets to tell anyone else what to do with their property, time, etc. as long as they aren’t violating others property rights.
That is supposed to be reflected in a “right to work” state.
The unions shouldn’t have the power to force employees to join and/or pay in any workplace. If a company wants to fire all the union workers, it should be able to. If the union builds its membership(on a voluntary basis) to the point it can cripple/kill the company they work for, so be it.
EVERYTHING should be voluntary.
If a contract is need for the CEOs and other executives, then the workers should have one as well!!
Boz makes a good point here. Let the people organize if they want to.
Sic Willie: Does it not sound strangely authoritarian for a libertarian to advocate the total destruction of labor unions? What happened to free choice by a free people? Who gets to decide that people don’t have the right to organize and to seek to bargain collectively? I’m not asking about states’ rights here. I’m talking about the rights of the individual in our society. The last time I checked, libertarianism was the opposite of authoritarianism. Am I missing something here? And “Yes, a brain.” is not a good enough answer.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/WeThePeople.SC/permalink/422126411218043/
Agreed. Get gov’t out of labor unions(and labor unions out of gov’t) and let the chips fall where they may.
In a free/voluntary society no one gets to tell anyone else what to do with their property, time, etc. as long as they aren’t violating others property rights.
That is supposed to be reflected in a “right to work” state.
The unions shouldn’t have the power to force employees to join and/or pay in any workplace. If a company wants to fire all the union workers, it should be able to. If the union builds its membership(on a voluntary basis) to the point it can cripple/kill the company they work for, so be it.
EVERYTHING should be voluntary.
If a contract is need for the CEOs and other executives, then the workers should have one as well!!
Boz makes a good point here. Let the people organize if they want to.
All that Obama bootlicking sure does tucker a man right out. Sidebar: If you fall through a chair at McDonalds, that’s probably a sign of something.
I would have sued McDonald’s for giving me a faulty chair. I could have made millions. Hmmmm. . .thinking about it now. Of course, I weigh less than half of 400 pounds. Might not work…
It wasn’t McDonalds fault for giving him the faulty chair, it was Bush. It’s always Bush.
They still call it that?
All that Obama bootlicking sure does tucker a man right out. Sidebar: If you fall through a chair at McDonalds, that’s probably a sign of something.
I would have sued McDonald’s for giving me a faulty chair. I could have made millions. Hmmmm. . .thinking about it now. Of course, I weigh less than half of 400 pounds. Might not work…
It wasn’t McDonalds fault for giving him the faulty chair, it was Bush. It’s always Bush.
They still call it that?
He’s probably dreaming about wearing a Fatkini.
Oh, whoops. Should’ve posted this after everyone had lunch, my bad.
He’s probably dreaming about wearing a Fatkini.
Oh, whoops. Should’ve posted this after everyone had lunch, my bad.
“… Meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships
and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the
government. All Government employees should realize that the process of
collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted
into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable
limitations … The very nature and purposes of Government make it
impossible for … officials … to bind the employer … The employer is the
whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their
representatives …
“Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant
tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government
employees. Upon employees in the federal service rests the obligation
to serve the whole people … This obligation is paramount … A strike of
public employees manifests nothing less than an intent … to prevent or
obstruct … Government … Such action, looking toward the paralysis of
Government … is unthinkable and intolerable.”
– FDR, 1937
FDR was talking about federal employees. Federal employees can organize but have limited “rights”. They can not negotiate wages, benefits, strike, etc. The “rules” are obviously different for state, local and/or municipal employees.
While that’s true, I really don’t see how this concept couldn’t be extended to state and local government.
“… Meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships
and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the
government. All Government employees should realize that the process of
collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted
into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable
limitations … The very nature and purposes of Government make it
impossible for … officials … to bind the employer … The employer is the
whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their
representatives …
“Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant
tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government
employees. Upon employees in the federal service rests the obligation
to serve the whole people … This obligation is paramount … A strike of
public employees manifests nothing less than an intent … to prevent or
obstruct … Government … Such action, looking toward the paralysis of
Government … is unthinkable and intolerable.”
– FDR, 1937
FDR was talking about federal employees. Federal employees can organize but have limited “rights”. They can not negotiate wages, benefits, strike, etc. The “rules” are obviously different for state, local and/or municipal employees.
While that’s true, I really don’t see how this concept couldn’t be extended to state and local government.
Much like politicians, Rosenthal was put in office by the members of his local. If they don’t like what he does or doesn’t do they can vote him out. In the mid 1960s I had a part time job with a truck line while in college. It was unionized. The Teamsters was the union. Being part time I did not have to join but I got paid union wages. ($2.90/hr in the era of the minimum wage of $1.25/hr). This was during the time that info was coming out about Hoffa and organized crime, pension funds, etc. I asked long time union members about it. They said they couldn’t care less as long as they got the pay and benefits he got for them. I imagine the same goes for Rosenthal.
I read a report years ago about Hoffa and the “skim”, AKA .Central States Pension Fund.
The government concluded that the dollar amount of each affected member was in the range of $10 per member,per year.
Much like politicians, Rosenthal was put in office by the members of his local. If they don’t like what he does or doesn’t do they can vote him out. In the mid 1960s I had a part time job with a truck line while in college. It was unionized. The Teamsters was the union. Being part time I did not have to join but I got paid union wages. ($2.90/hr in the era of the minimum wage of $1.25/hr). This was during the time that info was coming out about Hoffa and organized crime, pension funds, etc. I asked long time union members about it. They said they couldn’t care less as long as they got the pay and benefits he got for them. I imagine the same goes for Rosenthal.
I read a report years ago about Hoffa and the “skim”, AKA .Central States Pension Fund.
The government concluded that the dollar amount of each affected member was in the range of $10 per member,per year.
Wonder what Simmie would do if she found this cockroach crawling across her bathroom floor
Wonder what Simmie would do if she found this cockroach crawling across her bathroom floor
the absence of unions is what hurts American jobs and wages and standards of living…..it is a shame they don’t count for much any more….the American corporation gets richer and richer because there are no more unions left
Well Tyrone, all I can say to that is:
LIVE BETTER!
WORK UNION!
the absence of unions is what hurts American jobs and wages and standards of living…..it is a shame they don’t count for much any more….the American corporation gets richer and richer because there are no more unions left
Well Tyrone, all I can say to that is:
LIVE BETTER!
WORK UNION!
Pain meds can keep you ‘backed up’ and constipated for weeks.He needs an enema or something,but even I ain’t gonna fuck that shit,well maybe if I had some Quaaludes…
Pain meds can keep you ‘backed up’ and constipated for weeks.He needs an enema or something,but even I ain’t gonna fuck that shit,well maybe if I had some Quaaludes…
To whom it may concern:
I am ready, willing,and able to work twice as long as this gentleman, for half the pay and bennies.
Serious as a heart attack.
To whom it may concern:
I am ready, willing,and able to work twice as long as this gentleman, for half the pay and bennies.
Serious as a heart attack.
The only cancer I see being placed on America is this terribly written one sided story. Please stop writing.
The only cancer I see being placed on America is this terribly written one sided story. Please stop writing.