Sanitation Finks Admit to Intentional Slowdown
The Post is running an article this morning about several sanitation workers and supervisors that have come forward to confess there was indeed an effort to slowdown work and cripple the city in protest of budget cuts. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sanit_filthy_snow_slow_mo_qH57MZwC53QKOJlekSSDJK
The Post is running an article this morning about several sanitation workers and supervisors that have come forward to confess there was indeed an effort to slowdown work and cripple the city in protest of budget cuts.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sanit_filthy_snow_slow_mo_qH57MZwC53QKOJlekSSDJK
I have a question. Why did a group of supposedly random DOS supervisors go to Dan Halloran’s office to vent their complaint rather than to the media, the Public Advocate or even the DA’s office where they could receive job action immunity?
Halloran is one of the most junior and least experienced members of the City Council and he sits on no committees which could be relevant to whistleblowers looking to have their grievances aired, such as Transportation or Oversight.
Sounds like Murdoch FUD to me.
I don’t think this POST story is for real and I will wait to see if there is any more info from a real paper, or real evidence.
My fake story is that Bloomberg only plows the boroughs when he has to make sure the Teachers do not get paid for a snow day. (it’s true, just ask the guys who told me that)
I like Unions. Those guys have inflated pay, but it is all on the books and they pay taxes on every cent they earn. They also spend like drunken sailors in bars and stores which equal more taxes. Taxes = snowplows.
We are loacated only a few blocks from a sanitation garage, and on a through street that many trucks use to return to that garage.
Over 30 years, we always got plowed, I figured because they roll down our block anyway.
Well not this time. Cobble Hill/Carrol Gardens wer barely plowed. Since the Union St bus was cancelled, I realize that Union St is just another street. But the 76th Precinct is there, so I guess it got plowed. But the Avenues, Clinton, Henry etc… nada.
Don’t know if it’s true or not but reading the NYT comments – and there were plenty – a huge number of them reported plows coming through with the plow up, essentially doing nothing. And it was throughout the outer boroughs.
This is what happens when you abuse an organized labor force and remove all their means of redress. They city prohibited them from striking, their grievances fall on deaf ears, suits languish in the courts for years; what did the mayor expect? You can’t unjustly push people around and not expect them to push back.
That said, consider the source. This whole thing is probably a non-story.
i don’t think the whole slow down thing is exclusive to unions. none of my co-workers are unionized, and they are the laziest POS’s I have ever seen in my life.
NYGuy7, I wouldn’t say that. i work in manhattan and the cross streets were still a mess yesterday. They are less of a mess today only because they are melting faster over here.
Oops, that should say “add” and “routes.”
Hmmm, considering Manhattan got plowed out just fine it that sort of blows the whole union angle.
Also, the city uses a lot of private contractors to help with snow removal it’s not just the sanitation dept yet they didn’t ask for help until 30 hours AFTER the NWS issued their warning about the blizzard. Ad to that the fact that they never even declared a snow emergency before the storm hit which would have removed a lot of the cars on streets designated snow emergency routs.