Posted on 10/29/2021 11:31:52 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Missed collections were reported in Staten Island and Brooklyn. And residents have taken to social media in outrage over the accumulating garbage and to raise concern that the slowdown is intentional in protest of the vaccine mandate.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who announced last week that city workers were required to have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by Friday at 5 p.m. or be placed on unpaid leave, said that supervisors at the department of sanitation would not allow missed collections to continue, though neither he nor the sanitation department would say if the slowdown was on purpose.
"Anyone who is not doing their job, you're harming your fellow sanitation workers, and you're harming your neighbors, and you're harming your city," de Blasio said. “And it's time to stop.”
In a statement, the sanitation department said it is “aware that there are collection delays.”
City workers from other departments have protested the vaccine mandate, with hundreds of New York Fire Department employees rallying in front of the mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion, on Thursday. The mandate applies to about 100,000 city employees and the New York Police Department.
As of Thursday, 67 percent of New York City sanitation workers had been vaccinated.
De Blasio said he has been in touch with the sanitation department and the union that represents sanitation employees. The department, de Blasio said, has been clear that the slowdown is unacceptable and that "there will be consequences." In the meantime, the sanitation department has canceled days off and will be requiring Sunday shifts to create additional capacity, as needed.
Joseph Mannion, president of the Sanitation Officers Association, fears the trash pileups might foreshadow a possible worker shortage on Monday if vaccination rates among sanitation workers don’t increase by Friday.
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That moron is about to get his ass handed to him.
Jam it, Eloi worms.
Knee cap the administration.
Refuse, Resist, Solidarity.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer city.
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Beelzebub smiles on his son de Blasio from below.
The fun hasn’t even started yet. But it will. Monday.
The NaziCommieClown should shut his effing yap.
They did after all vote for this. Actions, meet consequences.
I need a Big Bag of popcorn.
Unlike the penultimate chapter of Atlas Shrugged when our heroes are flying out of New York after rescuing John Galt from the tortures of the Biden .... excuse me , the Thompson Administration, and the lights go out because the power plants stop working....
This time, the last sane people fleeing the city will look back and see it being buried in trash, and there will be some extra illumination... from burning cars and buildings.
You made me LOL, at 3am!
“Madge” from the Palmolive commercials said it best when she said, …
“You’re soaking in it!”
Damn it’s been a long time since I last saw that!
DeBlasio to New York City: Drop Dead!
YOU go pick it up, Bill...and take your wife with you.
Snake Plisskin is tanned, rested, and ready...
One could argue that it’s not a deliberate slowdown because 67% of the workforce cannot do what used to take 100%.
I guess he’s taking lessons from pharaoh. Keep making the same number of bricks.
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