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]
I will admit that Fox takes it to such extremes that even they have to laugh. LOL
Comparing those publications isn’t a joke. Everyone has a slant. Period. I’ve read/viewed plenty of stories in/on major publications that have stretched the truth, omitted facts, and have just been generally misleading. They will run stories in a manner that generates the most revenue, which usually means overly catering to a specific demographic. Media bias is media bias regardless of the degree.
I dont think this “vindicates” management (i.e. Bloomberg) or that it likely explains the whole mess (pun intended) but I have to chuckle at the responses here that make it out like a worker action is somehow impossible.
Look there is no question that sanitation did not plow at anywhere need the speed and efficiency as in the past – this is essentially indisputable.
Either there wasnt nearly enough workers/equipment (which so far doesnt seem to be the case) or for some reason the workers/equipment was not as efficient as in the past….unless there was a major change in the deployment of workers/equipment, a work action is certainly a reasonable possibility given the total breakdown in effectiveness.
And BTW in terms of Unions, I am support them – EXCEPT as it applies to municipal unions – in a democratic country they should be illegal.
Oh and Mopar wins my “Tortured Logic Post of The Day” by somehow blaming Morgan Stanley, et al for the lack of snow removal – brilliant!
comparing the NY Post and Fox News to CNN and the NY Times is a joke. i hate when people try to claim the same degree of outrageous media bias on the right and left.
if this story is 100% true, i look forward to reading it in other sources. meanwhile, it’s the main link on Drudge Report. shocker.
Our block was plowed last night!
By bxgrl on December 30, 2010 10:56 AM
Dave I suggest you read gman’s post above.
Of course, some anonymous blogger over a major NYC newspaper.
Investigate away. EVERYONE and every agency needs to have a little light shed on how they operated here. But let’s have it done by parties without a stake in the results, and let the cards fall where they may.
However, deciding that the union, or even the mayor, for that matter, is to blame, and then searching for evidence to prove it, is not the way to do it. Having the Post cite unnamed sources and anonymous “snitchers”, as “evidence”, or a truck by the side of the road not working, and we’re supposed to believe it because a City Councilman said it, well – hardly conclusive proof of anything, let alone a vast union conspiracy.
Everyone here seems like they’re on the rag.
I don’t care who’s fault it is. FINISH CLEAN THE STREETS ALREADY!!!
“what harm could come from an investigation?”
None Benson, I agree about that. I think there SHOULD be an investigation of the abysmal response to this snowstorm. Let the chips fall where they may.