Why does Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty (Right) still have a job?
Posted on 01/04/2011 3:24:11 AM PST by fifthvirginia
Call it the “blizzard backlash.”
Criminal investigations are under way to find out why it took so long to dig out from last week’s massive snow storm.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
Unions at their finest !!!!
All should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
The stupidity in these decisions for union management is amazing. All they had to do is make an average attempt to keep major streets open, and sweep through side streets just one time. They now end up with cops and lawyers asking questions and the union will have to let go of a minimum of $3 million to cover lawyer costs for its members as they get grilled.
I think I’d dump the sanitation workers from the snow business and just contract it out to some guys from Jersey.
Completely missing from this is the moral responsibility of city workers to do what they are paid to do in a city emergency.
If the citizens of New York City let these criminals get away with this, they deserve to live in a totally dysfunctional city.
“The stupidity in these decisions for union management is amazing.”
Oh, you do not know the half of it.
I wish I had time to explain some union procedures that
I was made aware of back in the 60s, when I was in the plastics molding business.
I had machine set-up guys that had been in automotive factories to repair a machine, or set up new ones.
They said it was a nightmare as the machine would fall under the jurisdiction of as many as four unions. For example, electrical, mechanist, sheet metal workers, and hydraulics.
To make a long story short, to make a 30 minuet repair, could take two or three days, by having to get a shop steward for each union to schedule a member to come do some simple job, like take out the four screws holding the valve, another to come unhook the two wires, etc...
The factory repair man was not allowed to touch the machine.
Once the faulty valve was removed, the procedure started all over again, to install the new valve and restart the machine.
The unions are the government. The government is a union.
There is no way it will ever happen, but public sector unions must be abolished.
By union rules, the engineers couldn't so much as touch a meter or scope probe to a piece of equipment - they had to get a union tech connect them. Once the probe was connected, though, the engineers were allowed to look at the display. :=) When a suspected bad circuit card needed to be replaced, that could only be done by a tech, not the engineer.
“That sounds very similar to the situation I saw while teaching an in-house course at Teletype Corporation”
Yep, that is just how they work.
No wonder the USSA is sinking like the Titanic, but the union crap has been going on for a long time.
My uncle had a plastics molding company on Long Island, NY.
The union started picketing him.
My uncle was small but wiry and would not take anything
off of anyone.
He walked up to this big union picket guy who was in a sharkskin suit.
My uncle grabbed his hand, looked at the palm, and said...
You G.. D... s.. of a b...., you have never done a days work in your life. You get the H... out of here or I will beat the s... out of you.
Well, uncle sold out and moved to a mountain top in Arkansas
to raise Santa Gertruda cattle.
In October 1990, three round holes the size of silver dollars appeared in the floor of my classroom at Booker T. Washington Junior High between West 107th and 108th streets in Spanish Harlem, about twelve blocks from Columbia Teachers College. My room was on the third floor and the holes went through to the second floor room beneath. In unguarded moments, those holes proved an irresistible lure to my students, who dropped spitballs, food, and ball bearings down on the heads of helpless children below without warning. The screams of outrage were appalling. So pragmatically, without thinking much about it, I closed off the holes with a large flat of plywood and dutifully sent a note to the school custodian asking for professional assistance.The story continues here.The next day when I reported to work my makeshift closure was gone, the holes were open, and I found a warning against "unauthorized repairs" in my mailbox. That day three different teachers used the room with the holes. During each occupancy various objects plummeted through the floor to the consternation of occupants in the space below. In one particularly offensive assault, human waste was retrieved from the toilet, fashioned into a missile, and dropped on a shrieking victim. All the while, the attacking classroom exploded in cackles of laughter, I was later told.
My own stupidity story: In 1977 I nearly caused the postponement of a NY Yankee playoff game. What did I do? I replaced some lightbulbs in the scoreboard. (This is a job for an "electrician.")
ML/NJ
Yes there is:
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair. [Federalist No. 28 (Hamilton) excerpt]These are times which try men's souls.
ML/NJ
“The story continues here.”
Thank you for the link. I have bookmarked it for tomorrow, as I am about to go to bed.
Yes, the union destruction of America started quite some time before the Marxist takeover of education and media.
I should add the Whitehouse, as there is no doubt that Ozero is a Marxist.
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