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]
yes, if only all industries were like the pharmaceutical industry…
one can dream.
Imagine union members in a world of deferred compenssation tied to performance and profitability!!!!
This is how the best of the best compensate people…MSFT, INTC, AAPL, pharmaceuticals, etc, etc, etc.
Whoops- sorry, meant that to the wage/bene level quote, not to you, ishtar. my bad.
ishtar- what? you crazy.
I did it. I told the snow to come, the plows to stop, and the yahoos to drive around in the streets and get stuck. It was all my fault.
So you can all relax now.
“Dave, if you think that company’s don’t maintain wage levels and benefits at a level just high enough to make unionization seem unnecessary to the majority of their workers, then…in your words…you’re just a fool.”
Some do, but most don’t.
Interesting article. Completely lacking in any actual provable data, but aren’t conspiracy theories fun?!?!
By vinca on December 30, 2010 12:09 PM
Dave, if you think that company’s don’t maintain wage levels and benefits at a level just high enough to make unionization seem unnecessary to the majority of their workers, then…in your words…you’re just a fool.
This really has to be the most inane, stupid statement I’ve ever seen made her!!!!!
vinca – isnt that the point of collective bargaining rights in the first place??? Seems like you are describing a favorable outcome as opposed to describing a problem.