Thousands Of NYC Union Workers March On City Hall To Demand Retroactive Pay

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BY Celeste Katz

Thousands of municipal workers chanting “Bye Bye Bloomberg!” shut down three lanes of traffic outside City Hall on Wednesday in a massive demonstration over years of retroactive pay raises.

Our Fermino and Rodgers report:

Carrying signs that said “Fair Contract Now,” the protesters – including off-duty cops, firefighters, teachers, and sanitation workers – scoffed at Mayor Bloomberg’s claims that the cash-strapped city can’t afford their demands.

“Fair contracts, that’s all we ask for,” said Michael Mulgrew, president of the 200,000-member United Federation of Teachers, which has been without a contract since the fall of 2009.

“The mayor’s out there, spinning this fairy tale and we’re saying, ‘Enough!’”

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