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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Rahm catches hell for closing libraries. “Uh. It’s the union’s fault.” « Fred Klonsky

Rahm catches hell for closing libraries. “Uh. It’s the union’s fault.” « Fred Klonsky:

Rahm catches hell for closing libraries. “Uh. It’s the union’s fault.”

After a week of catching hell for his plan to close Chicago’s branch libraries on Mondays, Mayor Emanuel figured out that the way out of his mess was to blame the union.

Sun-Times:

Chicago Public Libraries were closed for business on Monday for the first time in recent memory after the latest in a string of disputes between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and organized labor.

Catch the Emanuel logic on this one.

If the unions only had agreed to close the libraries half a day on Monday AND half a day on Friday, the libraries