NY Post: Blame the Garbage Bosses
Today in blizzard finger-pointing: “Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts — a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned. Miles of roads stretching from as north as Whitestone, Queens, to the south…
Today in blizzard finger-pointing: “Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts — a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned. Miles of roads stretching from as north as Whitestone, Queens, to the south shore of Staten Island still remained treacherously unplowed last night because of the shameless job action, several sources and a city lawmaker said, which was over a raft of demotions, attrition and budget cuts.” The subject line of the email from a reader yesterday morn that included this photo: “This is Fulton street?”
Sanitation Department’s Slow Snow Clean-Up Was a Budget Protest [NY Post]
AAPL – convicted of repricing the options of key senior executives to ensure their multi-million dollar salaries even as shareholder value eroded
MSFT – fired lower level employees and brought them back as independent contractors to avoid paying them benefits.
Any other bastions of morality you want to put forth DIBS?
Or perhaps you could give some examples of how unions caused the credit crunch and the all but complete failure of those heavily unionized financial services companies? Or was it the, gulp, free market that brought us to the brink of financial disaster.
I know, it was us libruls. I’m eagerly awaiting Rush’s/your explanation of how.
So is the University of Chicago library!!!! 🙁
Disneyland is Unionized by the Teamsters….
DIBS = commie
> establishing a pay ceiling for rookies
Look, DIBS is in favor of salary caps.
NFL Labor Deal Unlikely Before Super Bowl, Union Says
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — The National Football League and its players union are unlikely to reach a labor agreement before this season’s Super Bowl title game, union head Kevin Mawae said.
Mawae, president of the NFL Players Association, said players and owners haven’t made significant progress since meetings in November. He said the union has made proposals to solve disputes over topics including expansion of the season to
18 games from 16 and establishing a pay ceiling for rookies.
“Getting a deal done by Super Bowl weekend is not a real possibility,†Mawae, 39, said on a conference call with reporters. The Super Bowl is scheduled for Arlington, Texas, on Feb. 6.
Owners in the U.S.’s most-watched sports league voted in 2008 to opt out of the labor agreement with players after this season, saying the deal didn’t account for rising costs, such as those of building stadiums. Mawae said the union is preparing for a lockout and hoping to reach a new accord before the old one expires in March.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters after a league meeting in Ft. Worth, Texas, this month that a labor agreement may be in place by the Super Bowl “if we all commit to it and work hard at it.â€
I REST MY CASE.
By stringer bell on December 30, 2010 1:38 PM
i was just responding to the “all union supporters and members are lazy and ignorant” viewpoint.
Not the supporters, the members.
“You didn’t do it in a nice way. I could tell by your tone.”
haha, fair enough.
“I have a serious problem with the political power they have. They’ve placed a tremendous burden on local municipalities that cannot be met and it’s likely to bankrupt cities/counties/states, which in turn makes it extremely difficult to invest in things like education and infrastructure.”
that sounds bad. i was just responding to the “all union supporters and members are lazy and ignorant” viewpoint.
I wouldn’t “catergorically dismiss” them either, but I have a serious problem with the political power they have. They’ve placed a tremendous burden on local municipalities that cannot be met and it’s likely to bankrupt cities/counties/states, which in turn makes it extremely difficult to invest in things like education and infrastructure.