Posted on 10/30/2021 6:31:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
NEW YORK (AP) — Mounting trash. Closed firehouses. Fewer police and ambulances on the street.
That’s the possibility New York City is bracing for come Monday as a COVID-19 vaccine mandate looms and thousands of municipal workers remain unwilling to get the shots.
Police officers, firefighters, garbage collectors and most other city workers faced a 5 p.m. Friday deadline to show proof they’ve gotten at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Workers who don’t comply will be put on unpaid leave starting Monday.
Mayor Bill de Blasio held firm on the mandate even as tempers flared on Friday with six firefighters suspended for taking a fire truck to a lawmaker’s office and threatening his staff over the vaccine mandate.
The incident was a dramatic escalation after firefighters and other workers rallied Thursday outside de Blasio’s official residence, sanitation workers appeared to be skipping garbage pick ups in protest and the city’s largest police union went to an appeals court seeking a halt to the vaccine requirement.
Pat Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association, said the hard deadline “sets the city up for a real crisis.” Andrew Ansbro, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, warned longer response times will “be a death sentence to some people.”
De Blasio said Thursday that the city has contingencies to maintain adequate staffing and public safety, including mandatory overtime and extra shifts — tools that he said were typically used “in times of challenging crisis.”
The mayor called the sanitation slowdowns “unacceptable” and said the department will move to 12-hour and begin working Sunday shifts to ensure trash doesn’t pile up.
“My job is to keep people safe — my employees, and 8.8 million people,” de Blasio said at a virtual news briefing. “And until we defeat COVID, people are not safe.”
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The Great Reset is about to fudge Wilhelm right up the old keister.
I’ll hit up Quentin Tarantino, he’s got it.
The unions need to stand together, and send this message to the mayor: “Suspend even one of us and we all stay home.” Then give His Honor a week to think about it.
If de Blasio won’t blink, let him and his staff collect the garbage, put out the fires, and answer the police calls.
I have never, ever supported unions before this.
But this is absurd, forcing anyone to choose between a good job and a potentially dangerous unknown vax for a minimally dangerous disease.
Go unions.
The mayor called the sanitation slowdowns “unacceptable” and said the department will move to 12-hour and begin working Sunday shifts to ensure trash doesn’t pile up.
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Moronmayor fires the unvaxxed and overworks the remaining staff. That should make for some happy workers.
Good. NYC voted for a communist now let them choke on it!
When, if ever, with the media wake the eff up and ask why the Democrats are deliberately driving the remaining economic infrastructure off a cliff?
RE: NYC voted for a communist now let them choke on it!
This red mayor has barely two months left before he leaves office (good riddance and hopefully, forever ). But I’m not sure if the city voters have any sense to vote for a better change or retain the same policy by voting for another Democrat.
We had about 20 years of relative prosperity when the city voted for Republicans 5 consecutive times. All of that changed in 2014 when over 75% of city voters did not even bother to vote leaving the field for Commie De Blasio to take over.
N Yorkers should just put there trash on Debasio’s doorsteps and let it pile up there.
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On December 8, Catholics well celebrate the feast of the immaculate conception.
...in other news the requirement for us to get the jab is November 8. I’m going to retire 8 months early to avoid termination. November 4th is my last day.
On November 8th I’ll be celebrating...
...the feast of the immediate cramyourmandate
with much imbibing and merriment afoot
...that is all
None of this is about health anymore.
DeBlasio is having delusions of omnipotence. The Roman emperors were finished when they lost the Praetorian Guard.
What! No potatoes comrade!
This isn’t De Blasio’s first term, voters could clearly see even then that he was incompetent AND malicious, yet they responded by ... re-electing the jerk
New Yorkers are getting what they voted for ... too bad the City is getting destroyed in the process
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