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State unions should drop the tactics and negotiate

Gov. David A. Paterson's efforts to negotiate givebacks from state workers' unions have stalled, and in their place have risen personal attack ads against the governor. One striking image portrays him with his fingers in his ears, "not listening." The unions should back off the nasty tone and return to Earth, where New York's private sector lost 33,000 jobs last month. The ads are specifically designed...

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