26. Nicholas LaMorte

LaMorte remains the voice and face of the Civil Service Employees Association’s 50,000 members on LI, having won his fourth term as union president last year. We applaud LaMorte for being among the first to publicly call for the resignation of Richard Turan, head of the Nassau Health Care Corporation, when it was revealed that Turan took a secret raise while laying off rank-and-file CSEA workers. The fact remains that 860 hospital workers lost their jobs.