Jim Callaghan recalls a time when a New York City mayor was committed to settling labor disputes regardless of whether they were public or private. He describes Mike Bloomberg as missing-in-action on the current high-cost Broadway strike.
"As New Yorkers watched the strike unfold, the mayor –heretofore known as Missing in Action Mike- was busy giving the keys to the city to the singer Fats Domino and dining at a midtown bistro, to help one business owner. Bloomberg has an uncanny tin ear when it comes to those moments that call for decisiveness and ingenuity; indeed, during last summer’s half-hour rainstorm that closed down the city for an entire day, the mayor was very busy honoring a baseball player, Tom Glavine, who also got the key to the city, which won’t help him much in Atlanta as he recently bade Gotham farewell."
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