Posted on 05/02/2021 11:39:36 AM PDT by george76
NEW YORK - As things are slowly re-opening here in New York City, 80,000 city employees are expected to return to the office on Monday. But not everyone is happy to go back.
"It is disgusting how the mayor and city agencies have been treating city workers and using us as a pawn to bring back New York City," a city employee, who didn't want to give her name, said.
Some city employees say the buildings are not safe and claim they haven't been told what safety protocols are in place.
But Mayor Bill de Blasio said it is safe to return.
"Our health care leaders are clear — this is the right time for folks to come back," the mayor said.
Back in January, de Blasio announced that city workers would come back into offices in May. So he said the workers knew it was going to happen.
"180,000 city employees have been vaccinated — very important to know that 80% of the workforce is right now at their jobs and has been through the height of the pandemic," de Blasio said. "We've got to do the work to bring the city back."
The mayor claimed that working from home just isn't as productive as working in the office.
The grassroots organization City Workers for Justice will be holding a rally on Saturday afternoon to demand the mayor push back the start date to September. The group said many families are now scrambling to find childcare in the midst of a pandemic.
"We demand a return to work plan that is safe and equitable," said Jeremiah Cedeño of City Workers for Justice.
The mayor said the plan is set and has been tested, citing the success of the reopening of schools.
"Based on what we saw in the public schools, which has been literally extraordinary and proven over and over again, a million tests to confirm how safe the schools have been," de Blasio said. "We're taking the exact same methodologies, applying them here."
They should go on strike.
OK, if they don’t want to work then they shouldn’t get any pay or unemployment.
Government union thugs enjoy their Caribbean vacations - say it is not safe to return to work.
“We demand a return to work plan that is safe and equitable,”
cut the unemployment, stimulus checks and pay to stay home that’s the plan
Yup. They’ll cry about “safety” to anyone who’ll listen, but they’ve had a year off, and they kinda like their new life.
With the old paycheck for doing nothing, of course.
The way our legal system operates, they could probably file suit against the city and continue receiving their pay until the issue is decided in, say, 30 years or so.
Expect anything less?
Human nature in that once you allow people to hardly do sh*t, they want to keep hardly doing sh*t, yeah? I mean its the same ilk who once get used to getting free sh*t, will b*tch and moan when that free sh*t is removed, taken away, or ended, right?
80,000? 1 in 10 people in NY work for the city?
A good city worker- the kind a city would want working for it - would be proud to lead the effort in bringing back the city. Not this worthless tax-sucking POS.
Just Puhlease.
We promise to look the other way of you New Yorkers (the intelligent ones, at least) somehow lose your walking anus of a major.
Give him a Jimmy Hoffa sendoff.
Please.
I work in a building with about 1000 other people. They started bringing us back incrementally last September. First phase was there about 10 days when the COVID cases were found in returned employees. They sent everyone who could work from home, back home and we have not heard anything about returning ever since.
80,000 workers? Ahhh shite, there goes traffic...
Who’s going to fill those jobs in 2-5 years when people start dying off from the yet-known side effects of the vaccine?
They should all quit...
Actually I wouldn’t doubt it at all. Either for the city or for various agencies that are contracted for or by the city. I got a friend who fled the city last March. He was working at the Javitz center, scanning badges and stuff at conventions and trade shows. They are trying to get him to come back and offered him a 30% pay bump. Mostly now its a vaccination site. But he lives in another state now so even though the pay is attractive, he isn’t likely to go back. Maybe, his wife worked in theater but they are all closed too.
I had read that the public sector (federal, state, municipal) employs more than 10% of the labor force but I would have to dig up a link.
Municipal gubmint workers don’t want to go back to work. They are praying for another pandemic to come along to extend their vacation.
More frickin’ whining from city, state and federal workers who didn’t have to go to their jobs during covid outbreak and got paid more on unemployment than at their regular jobs. Meanwhile I and some others didn’t have that luxury and had to work, be exposed to covid daily and pick up extra days because co-workers got covid or some just quit so they wouldn’t have to go through daily exposure. That is all over now so anyone whining about being called back to their job places need to STFU. What a bunch of neurotic, lazy babies these city, state and federal workers are!
How do they think the poor grocery store checkers felt working all day long with people filing in and out constantly?
Oh, that’s right. The whiners think of NO ONE but themselves.
The people who had to work through covid are the ONLY ONES that should have their school loans forgiven and the only ones who should get free community college tuition! They EARNED IT. The rest just WHINE and do nothing. How about that, JoeBama?
80,000? 1 in 10 people in NY work for the city?
80,000 would be more like 1 in 100, but as per wiki, the total city payroll is:
New York City government employs 325,000 people, more than any other city in the United States and more than any U.S. state but three: California, Texas, and New York.
Come on man. I got no asses to grab.
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