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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 ...
Ain’t socialism grand!
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.
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.
His choice. His dereliction of duty.
Don't you New Yorker's disagree?
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 :)
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.
Weren’t their actions a violation of the contract, thereby voiding said contract?
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
Thugs.
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.
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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?
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?
I think I just saw the article mentioned on the Weather Channel.
From a couple of months ago...
NBC's Weather Channel Revamp Forecasts Strong Chance of Less Weather
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.
in nc one can be a member of the state employees union, but the members are not allowed to strike
Gee, this kind of stuff didn’t happen when Republican Rudy Giuliani was mayor. Go figure.
Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith and his flaky ideas doom New York during storm
...the former mayor's mentioned in the article.
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