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Sanitation Department's slow snow clean-up was a budget protest (NYC union thugs)
NY Post ^ | 12/30/10 | SALLY GOLDENBERG, LARRY CELONA and JOSH MARGOLIN

Posted on 12/30/2010 3:57:36 AM PST by jimbo123

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: jimbo123

Ain’t socialism grand!


121 posted on 12/30/2010 9:49:24 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: concerned about politics

A new state wouldn’t have to be as generous as NYS is currently. And I suspect that a lot of folks who like living on the dole would bug out for more amenable climes.


122 posted on 12/30/2010 9:50:58 AM PST by mewzilla (Hey, Schumer, your Lockerbie report left quite a bit out.)
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To: John O

Who says anything about interfering? The Congress has the power to fact-find. God knows that the federal gov’t has its tentacles all over NYC’s transpo system. Let the House oversee what they’re enabling.


123 posted on 12/30/2010 9:53:05 AM PST by mewzilla (Hey, Schumer, your Lockerbie report left quite a bit out.)
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To: juliej
juliej, it is definitely Mayor Meffa's
responsibility. Meffa Bloomberg took time from his
responsibilities to help Islam's soldiers build
their 911 Victory Mosque at Ground Zero.

His choice. His dereliction of duty.

Don't you New Yorker's disagree?

124 posted on 12/30/2010 9:58:23 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: WaterBoard
Do you really think they are going to pin this on their fellow Union brothers?

I guess I'm still expecting the suits running the darn things to wake up and smell the coffee. Silly me.

Glad I'm not a stockholder in any of 'em :)

125 posted on 12/30/2010 10:00:09 AM PST by mewzilla (Hey, Schumer, your Lockerbie report left quite a bit out.)
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To: jimbo123

If I were a relative of one of the people who died because of the slow emergency response, I would be tempted to track these union bosses down and introduce them to Hell.


126 posted on 12/30/2010 10:01:14 AM PST by thethirddegree
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To: jimbo123

Weren’t their actions a violation of the contract, thereby voiding said contract?


127 posted on 12/30/2010 10:03:22 AM PST by chooseascreennamepat
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To: mewzilla

A spokesman for the union representing employees of the New York City’s Department of Sanitation said that snow clean-up workers are “getting annoyed over the fact that people are thinking there is a job action.” But taxpayers are likely to be more annoyed when they find out how well the workers do financially, even in retirement.

According to the Manhattan Institute’s “See Through New York” database of 2009 pensions, nearly 180 retired employees make over $66,000 year — in other words, over and above the maximum salary of currently working employees. In fact, 20 retirees make upwards of $90,000 in retirement, up to $132,360.

Couple this with how notoriously difficult it is to fire a public employee, and you’ll see why a public employee crashing a snow plow into a car doesn’t rattle city officials.

Just to be clear, the top salary of $66,672 is only the tip of the iceberg for active sanitation worker compensation because it excludes other things like overtime and extra pay for certain assignments. For example, one worker in 2009 had a salary of $55,639 but actually earned $79,937 for the year.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2010/12/new-york-city-streets-are-unplowed-least-sanitation-workers-retir#ixzz19cOUJyP4


128 posted on 12/30/2010 10:03:57 AM PST by Rennes Templar ( Reagan: " When I was young we were poor, but the gov't didn't have to tell us we were poor")
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To: jimbo123

Thugs.


129 posted on 12/30/2010 10:05:53 AM PST by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: thethirddegree

I’m sure the union goons are paying off and/or threatening the black mother of the dead newborn to keep quiet about her pain and to find a way to blame it on Chris Christie and George Bush.


130 posted on 12/30/2010 10:06:41 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: potlatch; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP
Michael Bloomberg




#1 - democrat

#2 - Republican

#3 - Independent

#4 - No-Labels

131 posted on 12/30/2010 10:09:07 AM PST by devolve (. . . . . . . . . Wagya for only $100 pound . . Gasoline for only $5.00 a gallon . .)
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To: Rennes Templar

Foer once I can see the need for some lawyers. I wonder if there’s any way affected citizenry can sue the union people responsible?


132 posted on 12/30/2010 10:10:03 AM PST by mewzilla (Hey, Schumer, your Lockerbie report left quite a bit out.)
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To: chooseascreennamepat
Speaking of contracts, are there public safety clauses in union contracts to prevent members from sticking it to the public?

If not, there bloody well should be.

Then again if there are, I wonder if that's why the mayor's office waited so long to declare an emergency, because the union would then be prohibited from any work slowdown due to the change in status?

Anyone know?

133 posted on 12/30/2010 10:12:40 AM PST by mewzilla (Hey, Schumer, your Lockerbie report left quite a bit out.)
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To: mewzilla

I think I just saw the article mentioned on the Weather Channel.


134 posted on 12/30/2010 10:14:32 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Not under the influence of Hope-nosis.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Alas, the Weather Channel. I knew it well.

From a couple of months ago...

NBC's Weather Channel Revamp Forecasts Strong Chance of Less Weather

135 posted on 12/30/2010 10:19:49 AM PST by mewzilla (Hey, Schumer, your Lockerbie report left quite a bit out.)
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To: mewzilla

A strong leader needs to come in, gut their salaries and retirement benfits to realistic levels. Then if they strike, fire them and hire real workers.

Short of this, I’ve got a feeling they’ll get their comuppance when the retiremnt funds run dry.


136 posted on 12/30/2010 10:27:13 AM PST by Rennes Templar ( Reagan: " When I was young we were poor, but the gov't didn't have to tell us we were poor")
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To: jimbo123

in nc one can be a member of the state employees union, but the members are not allowed to strike


137 posted on 12/30/2010 10:33:48 AM PST by ncpatriot
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To: mewzilla

Gee, this kind of stuff didn’t happen when Republican Rudy Giuliani was mayor. Go figure.


138 posted on 12/30/2010 10:34:35 AM PST by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: Hoodat
Speaking of Giuliani....

Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith and his flaky ideas doom New York during storm

...the former mayor's mentioned in the article.

139 posted on 12/30/2010 10:38:41 AM PST by mewzilla (Hey, Schumer, your Lockerbie report left quite a bit out.)
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To: John O; mewzilla

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (commonly referred to as RICO Act or RICO) is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.


140 posted on 12/30/2010 10:41:37 AM PST by samtheman
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