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]
Times Square is all cleared. 🙂
Fascinating read. And yes, g-man, I do! I find your posts knowledgeable and well written. And you back up what you say. I don’t think I ever read a post where you insulted someone for a differing opinion (unlike the majority of the rest of us).I think you always try to present your case clearly and well. (But if I find out at some point you’re a Tea partier I will have to kill myself! 😉
I don’t doubt there are some facts somewhere at the base of the Post Story but I will reiterate again, the Post is not about journalism- it’s about media hype. I know what they did to my boss and my organization- there is no comparison to the work of a paper like the NY Times, or even the Daily News.
Head of the Sanitation Workers Union doing major damage control on the news. Whenever you listen to these guys, the bullshit is deafening.
I see there are a few new nutjobs here from when I left.
By getadamnbroker on December 30, 2010 5:15 PM
The clean-up was terrible. However, if the sanitation workers did do what they are accused of, I do not blame them. Bloomberg should have thought about this when he said he was cutting jobs and their budget. Sanitation workers, along with the police and fire departments and teachers are imperative in the running of a city. Their budgets should not be cut. Think about what they do? Think about what it would be like if they didn’t do it. A trash strike would be awful. So, Bloomberg, perhaps you take a look at your own actions and not blame the sanitation workers or their union that protects them.
HEY DIMBASS, this is the unions own doing. If unions would take a 3-5% pay cut, far less than the rest of America has taken, contribute a little more to their ridiculous healthcare and pensions (the rest of America has had these taken away or cut back dramatically) then their bretheren wouldn’t have been laid off.
Do you understand the hubris and sense of entitlement with these unions??? If they took a wage cut )small) then their overall budgets in terms of numbers employed would have remained the same.
Additioanlly, You take the rather ghetto approach of advocating illegal activity. Lets hear more intelligence from you.
I’m with Heather on the Europe thing. My hubby is from Republic of Ireland. You do know that Europeans think we are over consuming fat asses, don’t you? Many of them don’t want or need the huge flat screen tv’s, 2 gas guzzling cars or large houses. Their high taxes pay for medical and education.
And they get 6 weeks vacation!
“states that are growing in population as a consequence
of economic opportunity, like Texas”
Right. Which is why you live in Texas. Strong economy doesn’t necc. equal rising population. Better education tends to reduce birthrate, for example. Immigration policies affect population levels. Lots of variables.
I think people forget: municipalities agreed to these pensions. The unions traded stuff for them. That’s what negotiations are all about. Just because the municipalities are morons and agreed to stuff they can’t pay, ain’t the unions’ fault.
Now, I’m not saying unions are problem free. However, I’d rather have an inefficient organization with problems that is dedicated to worker empowerment than an inefficient organization with problems that is dedicated to profit over all else. Pick your poison.
I know treating diabetes with ER visits is really efficient.
Ishtar… yes, wah! We r poor! Budgets slashed! Tax revenue from real estate bubble unrealized! Why are all of these people wanting things, when we r so poor? Wahhh!
Legion, I did a semester at CUNY, it’s a great school. And I loved the fact that I could afford it working as an office temp. But even attending CUNY full-time, a student would have to live in New York City, which has become increasingly less cheap. That alone will probably cost them $20K for the year.
touche
heights magnifico,
on the circus video, I thought for sure you were
linking to the last governor’s debate.
ishtar,
the number is fixed at 435
but states that are growing in population as a consequence
of economic opportunity, like Texas,
benefit. Texas got our two congressional seats.
New York gets the shaft because our government has been shortsighted in terms of fostering a business friendly environment.
Too many special interests in Albany,
and still Sheldon Silver sits atop his thrown.
Thanks alot Lower East Side, for sending in that clown
year in year out.
“We also lead the nation in the number of people migrating out of state.
We just lost two congressional seats as a consequence.”
Misleading! This is more a consequence of the number of seats being fixed at 435.