Posted on 12/30/2010 9:10:11 AM PST by Biggirl
I’m not sure how much faith you can put in reports from anonymous New York City Sanitation Department employees who met with a city councilman yesterday, but you might as well read about it. They say the “message” sent – supported and encouraged by management - was in retaliation for demotions, attrition and budget cuts.
Obviously, clearing upwards of 20 inches (or more) of snow from New York City is a pretty big task. Where do you put the stuff? From what I understand, they need to use dump trucks to move it out of the city. That said, a few employees charged with driving the trucks and clearing the snow anonymously reported to some city officials this was an underground effort to throw some power around after management had to deal with recent budget cuts. From the New York Post.
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Government and government employee unions will soon succeeed in destroying America.
I hope New Yorkers are incensed by the actions of these union thugs and Mayor Bloomberg’s failure in this crisis. These union bosses should be prosecuted for racketeering and manslaughter for the deaths that resulted.
Yes...and what ‘Lable’ can be placed upon this Bloomburg epic fail? Incompetence? Progressiveness?
They should all be fired Reagan did it with PATCO. They should lose their jobs and benefits there are plenty of people who would love to have those jobs.
I don’t know NY very well. Fact is I have stayed in Time Square many times on business but never ventured out to far from there.
I see on the webcams it is a nice day and all the snow is off the streets “downtown”.
Being raised in Michigan, once you got outside of downtown your streets were never plowed - so I guess I don’t have any sympathy for either side of this.
There appears to be an ocean in the vicinity.
Union thugs strike again.
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