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COBA Blasts Mayor As Union-Buster In 'Juvie' Staffing War

By MARK TOOR
Posted 9/24/18

The Correction Officers Benevolent Association blasted “Mayor de Blasio’s union-busting tactics” Sept. 19 after an appellate judge, at the city’s request, dismissed a temporary restraining order that had blocked the assignment of correction officers to newly-created detention facilities for 16- and 17-year-olds.

Mr. de Blasio “is fighting harder to destroy our employment rights, which are protected under civil-service law, than he is to make the city's jails safer for everyone,” the union said.

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