Fifteen years ago, this newspaper published a letter from a Fire Captain taking sharp issue with a Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice's punishing Transport Workers Union Local 100 and its president for a strike the previous December with sanctions so severe that the author called them "a clear message" to organized labor that he would "try to break any union on behalf of this city or the MTA."
The letter by Capt. Michael F. Gala Jr. continued that Justice Theodore Jones's "decisions to jail TWU President Roger Toussaint, remove automatic dues check-off and fine the union $2.5 million will have far-reaching effects in the union world. Everyone who hates the TWU or labor in general should be ecstatic about these heavy-handed fines."
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