Just another doze at the office for union's `scarf-&-snore'
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* By RICH CALDER
* Last Updated: 11:51 AM, May 28, 2013
* Posted: 1:31 AM, May 28, 2013
EXCLUSIVE
Union fat cat Mark Rosenthal spends more time sleeping at his desk than
organizing labor, a series of damning photos reveals.
The 400-pound president of Local 983 of District Council 37 the
city's largest blue-collar municipal-workers union often
downs a huge meal, then drops into dreamland in the early afternoon,
members of the union's executive board told The Post.
IT'S A DREAM JOB: Mark Rosenthal, who pulls in $156,000 a year as head
of Local 983 of District Council 37, nods off at his desk during one of
a series of postlunch naps that have outraged members of the
union's executive board.
"He eats lunch when he arrives at work at 2 p.m. Then, like
clockwork, he goes to sleep with a cup of soda on the table and the
straw in it," said Marvin Robbins, a union vice president.
"Then he wakes up, looks at his watch and says, `I have to get
out before the traffic gets bad.' He's usually out by 4 p.m.
after being at the office two hours."
Rosenthal is a former Parks Department employee who rose to power
campaigning to rid the union of corruption in the late 1990s.
He last made embarrassing headlines in 2009, when he inspired a City
Council bill requiring jumbo-size ambulances for morbidly obese patients
after he had a stroke at City Hall.
Since then, he hasn't been making much of an effort to give the
city's ambulances a break and slim down. Union officials say he
racks up $1,400 in monthly food bills on the union dime.
Much of the 5-foot-7, 400-plus-pound Rosenthal's food tabs are for
catered union events and meals he writes off as "union
business," board members claim.
