When Mayor de Blasio June 17 unveiled his Juneteenth Economic Justice Plan, he stated that the city wanted to honor the holiday commemorating the end of slavery with action.
Union leaders wondered why, if he meant that, he had failed to make good on a promise a year earlier to make it an official city holiday that would mean a paid day off for their members.
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