My first substantive conversation with Jimmy Boyle came shortly after Labor Day 35 years ago at a point when most city union leaders were just brushing the summer sand off their vacation clothes in preparation for getting serious about reaching wage contracts to replace the ones that had expired July 1.
Mr. Boyle had been the conspicuous exception. After being elected president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association a year earlier, he declared in March 1984 that he would remove the union from the coalition that also included police and correction unions in which it had been negotiating since the 1975 fiscal crisis, and was determined to get the first contract of the next round of bargaining and do it before his old one expired.
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