Mayor de Blasio’s refusal to support unlimited sick time for civilian employees suffering from World Trade Center-related diseases without negotiating the issue has sparked outrage from the unions that represent those workers and their political allies.
City cops and firefighters afflicted with such diseases already are entitled to unlimited sick leave. Last year Governor Cuomo signed a law that granted that benefit to all state public employees from outside the five boroughs who responded to lower Manhattan the day of the attack and for the clean-up and recovery.
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