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]
“You don’t see us blaming everything on jimmy Carter do you???”
haha. no. just unions.
Trotting out the Reagan (or Bush) hate really makes you guys look pathetic.
You don’t see us blaming everything on jimmy Carter do you???
Pathetic.
“By daveinbedstuy on December 30, 2010 1:08 PM
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“Meanwhile, in Asia and the subcontinent where all of the production actually takes place, 80-hour work weeks, child labor and illegal stripmines keep the whole thing rolling along.”
*yawn*
“In tech land, the most profitable companies in the country, there are no unions. People have wonderful jobs, get paid, share in profits. Unions are a crutch for the lazy and the ignorant these days.
If you believe there’s going to be child labor and 80 hour work weeks if unions to disappear (they have in many industries) then you’re just a fool.”
And yes, in this magical place called “techland,” all workers (except the contract workers, of course) have stock options and benefits, free lunches and chauffered busses. They live in magical, gated communities. And the air is full of sparkly unicorn kisses.
Meanwhile, in Asia and the subcontinent where all of the production actually takes place, 80-hour work weeks, child labor and illegal stripmines keep the whole thing rolling along.
Imagine investment banks and hedge funds in a world of deferred compensation tied to performance and profitability!!!!
DIBS – your capitalism utopia must be a nice place to live, but in reality, even if you get past how to accurately measure performance (and profitability) you have the little problem of determining what share of a companies revenue/profit labor is entitled to…it is (mostly) a fair labor market when you are talking about workers with intellectual capital to sell, but when labor is essentially a commodity, it is very difficult for a single worker to effectively negotiate with management, and therefore collective bargaining is a legitimate (and not necessarily anti-capitalistic) tactic.
I am far from pro-union (I’ve actually LEGALLY negotiated the unions out of 2 locations I manage) but your Unions=universally bad/wrong is sort of ridiculously one-sided