A former FDNY union head has pissed off rank-and-file firefighters by selling out — and now they are suing to get back some of his pay, saying he violated their contract.
The Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York is suing its longest-serving president for switching sides to take a cushy job running the city’s Fire Department Pension Fund.
Stephen J. Cassidy, 67, was raking in a $130,000 salary from the union while collecting $90,000 in annual pay from the FDNY. But he stepped down from the union gig in 2016 to take a $212,000-a-year job as executive director of the pension fund.