New York's Mayor Bloomberg Booed At Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Commemoration

[Purveyor]

NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was loudly booed Friday at a speech commemorating the deaths a century ago of 146 people in a factory fire that then led to major labor law reforms across the United States.

Bloomberg was one of the principal speakers at the ceremonies in Manhattan at the site of the 1911 blaze at what was then the Triangle Waist Company.

The mayor told the crowd that the fire, which became a symbol of the unregulated sweatshop conditions endured by employees, galvanized politicians to transform workplace conditions.

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The mayor, in his third term, has run into stiff opposition from public sector unions to his budget cuts and attempts to reform what he says is an unaffordable public pension system.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/25/nyc-mayor-booed-at-triangle-fire-commemoration/

[hedgehog]

1. Meanwhile, New York State cuts aid to schools while Governor Cuomo

holds the line against raising taxes on millionaires.....

[Donnachaidh]

2. well, he's got to pay back the Koch Brothers some how

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49640293/Cuomo-s-Koch-Problem