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To lobby Albany, mayor invited union leaders on his private jet | GothamSchools

To lobby Albany, mayor invited union leaders on his private jet | GothamSchools

To lobby Albany, mayor invited union leaders on his private jet

The other day, a mayor, two union presidents, and a schools chancellor walked onto a private jet. It was not the start of a joke; it is what actually happened when Mayor Bloomberg gave a ride to some of his toughest labor counterparts last week.
On the jet heading upstate with the mayor were teachers union President Michael Mulgrew, Council of School Supervisors and Administrators President Ernest Logan, schools Chancellor Joel Klein, Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, the mayor’s Press Secretary Stu Loeser, and Mulgrew’s Deputy Director of Communications Peter Kadushin.
The group of labor and management leaders was in Albany to ask the legislature not to make severe cuts to