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]
Sorry, don’t believe it.
Some self serving City Council member with no real proof, and the Post, which is not exactly the model of journalistic integrity, does not add up to diddly.
It doesn’t even make sense. In order for that complex conspiracy to take place, every union supervisor would have to go along, as would every truck operator. That doesn’t happen at the best of times, it certainly wouldn’t happen when people’s own safety and self interest are at stake. Most sanitation people live within the 5 boroughs, especially the “outer boroughs”, and were just as affected as everyone else. So were their families and friends. You would not get that many people that devoted to a union that they would put their own people in danger, let alone the public. It’s ridiculous.
Maybe a couple of real hard asses in the union wanted to do that, but I doubt it had a lot of support. Sorry, the weather, the severity of the storm, and the lack of planning caused this mess, not a union conspiracy. Instead of just putting the blame where it really belongs, why don’t we try weather manipulating aliens, or terrorists? That would sell newspapers.
I have no objection to further investigation but i know from painful experience that the NY Post has no qualms about taking a statement and inflating it into a full blown indictment with very little information and much twisting of fact. And more than a few lies. They did it to my boss and destroyed the organization i worked for. They finally had to make a retraction because he had documented proof they were lying but the damage was done. That’s how the Post operates- gossip, half-truths, innuendo and “anonymous sources.” So I’d rather believe Jimmy Hoffa is in Cuba, drinking margaritas on the beach than swallowing the koolaid the NY Post writes as “the truth.”
NYGuy7;
Why are you so strenuously trying to discredit the story? Again I’ll ask: if a member of the City Council makes a serious charge about an issue that crippled the city, do you believe it merits further investigation? Or should we be satisfied with your flippant rematks and call it a day?
Perhaps sanitation did a terrible thing to protest budget cuts and layoffs. It’s still up to Bloomberg to set things straight as he’s the mayor. An analogy: Sanitation workers are children and Bloomberg is their daddy. He needed to step in and take control of his brats immediately!
“Also, evidence via videos and written accounts by numerous citizens attesting to the obvious slowdown tactics used is out there and mounting”
There’s also numerous accounts of citizens seeing UFO’s too. Obviously that must be true because people say so.
I find it interesting that folks are trying to discredit the story from the get-go. This is a serious charge. Does anyone here object to shining further light on the issue?
I think most of you morons have your heads in a snowbank, or somewhere else.
Really g man? Did they cite sources that told them they witnessed a specific wrong doing on your part? Did they detail exactly what those witnesses told them about how you carried out the crimes?
Final question – What Union do you belong to?
I beleive whether or not they are making the whole thing up will come to light if they get some of these sources to testify. Also, evidence via videos and written accounts by numerous citizens attesting to the obvious slowdown tactics used is out there and mounting.
“And you all wonder why I rant on unions all the time???”
It’s the NY Post, if you believe that I have a bridge for sale that connects Manhattan and Brooklyn for a very reasonable price.