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Laud Hanley for Fighting Bullies, Aiding Workers

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 5/21/19

Amalgamated Transit Union International President Larry Hanley was eulogized May 14 as a labor leader who was too tough to intimidate but sufficiently gentle to nurture and inspire his members.

“Larry spent his entire life fighting against the bullies and for the common man, the common woman,” Charlie Greinsky, a friend of 33 years, told the roughly 500 mourners inside The Church of Our Lady of Pity in Staten Island, a week after Mr. Hanley died at age 62.

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