Prominent NYC labor leaders call on de Blasio for more subway cops

A group of the Big Apple’s most prominent labor leaders is getting behind a major transit union’s call for more cops on the subway — saying the system no longer feels safe and urging the city to protect its everyday “heroes.”

In a letter to Mayor de Blasio issued Sunday, reps for hundreds of thousands of workers who rely on public transit to get to the kind of jobs that kept the city running through the pandemic — including grocery store employees, retail workers, city employees, and, of course, transit workers — called for an increased police presence in the transit system “at least in the short term.” “The reality is, right now many of our members don’t feel safe riding or working in mass transit. This is unacceptable,” the officials wrote.