Poster child for labor unions [photos]

[Alan C.]

Labor big a real heavy sleeper

Union fat cat Mark Rosenthal spends more time sleeping at his desk than organizing labor, a series of damning photos reveals.

The 400-pound president of Local 983 of District Council 37 — the city’s largest blue-collar municipal-workers union — often downs a huge meal, then drops into dreamland in the early afternoon, members of the union’s executive board told The Post.

“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,” said Marvin Robbins, a union vice president.

“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.”

Rosenthal is a former Parks Department employee who rose to power campaigning to rid the union of corruption in the late 1990s.

He 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.

Since then, he hasn’t been making much of an effort to give the city’s ambulances a break and slim down. Union officials say he racks up $1,400 in monthly food bills on the union dime.

Much of the 5-foot-7, 400-plus-pound Rosenthal’s food tabs are for catered union events and meals he writes off as “union business,” board members claim.

They say he significantly overorders at eateries like Dallas BBQ, the Stage Door Deli and Pine Restaurant in The Bronx, a hangout for local politicians, and takes the extra food back to his Bronxdale apartment.

“He’s always walking off with a doggie bag or extra boxes of food,” said another executive board member.

Rosenthal, who earns $156,000 annually, yesterday denied being a free spender— and insisted he works “12-to-14-hour days.”

[nathanm]

Hmmm…self-destructive bureaucrats…this could be a good thing after all.

[masonman]

Dear god its like a walking talking political cartoon

[nathanm]

If he wore a full body leather bondage outfit he could easily disguise himself as a piece of overstuffed furniture and sleep undetected.

Was there an ad in the newspaper for this position I wonder?  HELP WANTED Upper Management. Sleep 2 hours per day.  Limited responsibilities.  Free Food. $150,000\year

 

[Dave Bockman]

In his defense...

 

 

The Stage Door Deli is REALLY good []

[MrCapitalism]

I actually feel bad for the dude. In this situation I don't really care too much what he does or where he's getting his money, I hope he finds a way to better health...soon.