Forgetful D’Amato

To the Editor:

In Al D’Amato’s anti-union, anti-collective bargaining rant (“The leadership in middle America should make us proud” March 3-9), he wonders, regarding the Wisconsin strikers, “What would happen if you or I disappeared from work and our responsibilities for a few days?  I imagine we’d be fired.” 

Al conveniently forgets that when he was presiding supervisor of the Town of Hempstead and ran for Senate in 1980, he missed 91 percent of the Nassau County Board of Supervisors meetings, failing to vote on 966 ordinances and resolutions. While still presiding supervisor and before he was sworn in as senator, Al vacationed in Puerto Rico. 

Putting this in perspective, Al is allowed to miss work for fun and to further his career aspirations. Teachers and other union workers are not allowed to be absent to fight

and keep what they openly and fairly

bargained for.

Richard Woods

Oceanside