"Sanitation Department's slow snow cleanup was a budget protest
These garbage men really stink.
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."
More at: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/l...57MZwC53QKOJlekSSDJK
I do not blame unions from negotiating better terms for their members, that's their job.
If, I were a rancher on the frontier and a wolf threatened one of my calves, I wouldn't argue with the wolf or try to persuade him not to kill the calf. That's the wolf's nature -- that's what they do. I'd shoot the wolf and retrieve his pelt. Wolf fur is one of the few that won't freeze.
I do blame politicians for giving in to terms they can't meet without bankrupting their cities/states.
Faced with costs he knew the city couldn't meet, he cut the Sanitation Department's budget and let 400 workers go. He knows too well, he can't tax the rich more without them leaving. Many of his friends have left. From the Empire State building, he can see the new skyscrapers with thousands of jobs -- across the river in New Jersey.
However, the union crossed the line with the slow down, or worse. The leaders must be fired. And, the state should investigate who is to be charged with manslaughter. At least, two persons died because ambulances couldn't reach them. I smell a class action suit from businesses cut off from their customers. I hope New York state law exempts pension funds from the law suits. Otherwise, after prison, the ex-union leadership may be living on social security.
Next move for Bloomberg, privatize sanitation service for Staten Island and Brooklyn. Perhaps, the union will get the message. The Manhattan business district already uses a private service and its less expensive.
For our leftist posters (poseurs?) who will point out its a NY Post article, I'll point out AP also carried the story.
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