Look at this fat pig at his two hour job. There's nothing like ripping off the workers to inspire union membership.
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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 â the cityâs largest blue-collar municipal-workers union â often downs a huge meal, then drops into dreamland in the early afternoon, members of the unionâs executive board told The Post.
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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 post lunch naps that have outraged members of the unionâs executive board.
âHe 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,â said Marvin Robbins, a union vice president.
âThen he wakes up, looks at his watch and says, âI have to get out before the traffic gets bad.â Heâs usually out by 4 p.m. after being at the office two hours.â
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 hasnât been making much of an effort to give the cityâs 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 Rosenthalâs food tabs are for catered union events and meals he writes off as âunion business,â board members claim.
They say he significantly overorders at eateries like Dallas BBQ, the Stage Door Deli and Pine Restaurant in The Bronx, a hangout for local politicians, and takes the extra food back to his Bronxdale apartment.
âHeâs always walking off with a doggie bag or extra boxes of food,â said another executive board member.
Rosenthal, who earns $156,000 annually, yesterday denied being a free spenderâ and insisted he works â12-to-14-hour days.â
He says the allegations are âpart of a smear campaignâ by a faction trying to get another Local 983 vice president, Joseph Puleo, elected president in a June 5 showdown.
He said itâs normal for executives to take âpower naps.â
He also blamed his meetings with the sandman on the effects of pain medication he takes for backaches he has suffered since he fell through a chair at a McDonaldâs last year.
âThe chair broke because Iâm big,â Rosenthal said.
âIâm 60 years old, so if I eat during my lunch hour and take a little medication, canât I close my eyes?â he said outside his apartment complex. âIs it so outrageous?â
Rosenthal is also under fire from the unionâs executive board for allowing lawyer Arthur Schwartz to allegedly rack up an average of $12,000 a month in union legal fees for years despite being on a $5,500 monthly retainer, board members said.
But Schwartz claims he has submitted only one monthly bill over $10,000 in 15 years representing the union and averages about $7,000 per month in fees....
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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 â the cityâs largest blue-collar municipal-workers union â often downs a huge meal, then drops into dreamland in the early afternoon, members of the unionâs executive board told The Post.
<img src=http://www.nypost.com/r/nypost/2013/05/28/news/web_photos/xxx050552--525x600.jpg?
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 post lunch naps that have outraged members of the unionâs executive board.
âHe 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,â said Marvin Robbins, a union vice president.
âThen he wakes up, looks at his watch and says, âI have to get out before the traffic gets bad.â Heâs usually out by 4 p.m. after being at the office two hours.â
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 hasnât been making much of an effort to give the cityâs 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 Rosenthalâs food tabs are for catered union events and meals he writes off as âunion business,â board members claim.
They say he significantly overorders at eateries like Dallas BBQ, the Stage Door Deli and Pine Restaurant in The Bronx, a hangout for local politicians, and takes the extra food back to his Bronxdale apartment.
âHeâs always walking off with a doggie bag or extra boxes of food,â said another executive board member.
Rosenthal, who earns $156,000 annually, yesterday denied being a free spenderâ and insisted he works â12-to-14-hour days.â
He says the allegations are âpart of a smear campaignâ by a faction trying to get another Local 983 vice president, Joseph Puleo, elected president in a June 5 showdown.
He said itâs normal for executives to take âpower naps.â
He also blamed his meetings with the sandman on the effects of pain medication he takes for backaches he has suffered since he fell through a chair at a McDonaldâs last year.
âThe chair broke because Iâm big,â Rosenthal said.
âIâm 60 years old, so if I eat during my lunch hour and take a little medication, canât I close my eyes?â he said outside his apartment complex. âIs it so outrageous?â
Rosenthal is also under fire from the unionâs executive board for allowing lawyer Arthur Schwartz to allegedly rack up an average of $12,000 a month in union legal fees for years despite being on a $5,500 monthly retainer, board members said.
But Schwartz claims he has submitted only one monthly bill over $10,000 in 15 years representing the union and averages about $7,000 per month in fees....
More:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/labor_big_real_heavy_sleeper_jl3C7gI710FI3XqpEl5o3O
