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- Mayor Emanuel is playing favorites with unions.
With teachers and Mayor Rahm at an impasse on their contract negotiations, I think the time has come for firefighters and cops to thank my man Sam Holloway for their relative good fortune.
But his showdown with Rahm took place in the early days of the Emanuel reign when the mayor was strutting his stuff as a union basher.
In contrast he openly declared war on the teachers’ union—as I’ve discussed a few times.
To which the mayor said something like thanks but no thanks and got the hell out.
Plus, he’s found the money to make contribution to their pensions.
Moreover, the mayor’s not sure he can come up with the money to make good on what the city owes the teachers’ pension fund.
