Posted on 12/30/2010 8:03:35 AM PST by jimbo123
Outgoing Gov. David Paterson called this morning for a criminal investigation into allegations that a slowdown by budget-squeezed plow operators contributed to the city’s blizzard woes.
The Post reported today that a group of guilt-ridden sanitation workers confessed their protest plot to City Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Queens). The workers were fuming over recent job cuts and cutbacks, the councilman and other sources told The Post.
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Fire them all and turn it over to private operators.
Pray for America
Lock them up and throw away the keys. Dissolve the union.
How much to replace the city Ford Explorer that got trashed?
New York Times: Quit Complaining And Leave Those Poor Unionized City Workers Alone:
But is there a point when the outrage itself become outrageous? After all, it was an awful lot of snow. Or is outrage something every New Yorker needs to experience to pull through? Can we all learn to stop complaining and love the plows?
Mr. Polan, the sanitation commissioner from 1990 to 1992, was spared a blizzard during his tenure. “I was fortunate,” he said. The reality is, to plow every street quickly enough to avoid outrage is unfeasible, he said.
They murdered innocent people, including newborns, just like they put a gun to their heads and pulled the trigger.
NYC needs to take out the trash.
The turning of public wrath upon the Public Employee Unions of this country is going to become the #1 Feelgood Story of 2011
The newborn baby that died in Crown Heights was most likely Black.
You would think the NY Times would be crying racism over this tragedy. Instead, they support the White union goons.
Where is Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Barack The Kenyan?
Manslaughter is too weak. Second degree murder by depraved indifference to human life should be the charge, and for every union member, not just the leaders, as they all acted in concert.
This should be the Democrats’ ‘Katrina.’
Hahaha, I see where this is going. The Dems are planning a faux investigation to absolve Mayor Dumbberg and the Unions thugs! I bet it’ll be New Jersey’s fault once they’re through!
New Jersey governor Chris Christie has a lot detractors here on FreeRepublic (and deservedly so), but I gotta give the guy a lot of credit for one very big accomplishment that I never would have believed possible in my wildest dreams. Within six months of taking office he effectively reduced public school teachers to a level of public respect somewhere above arsonists and below lawyers.
Check out the photo at this link.
It’s a NYC sanitation worker union goon taking an 1.5 hour nap in his truck when he was supposed to be plowing snow Monday morning.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/taking_plower_nap_cQ3mKE9Dqptl6gVuk7ljSK
I see a lot of people posting about how New Yorkers could help themselves out of this mess but this goes way beyond simply waiting for "George to do it". NYC has to haul the snow off in trucks, people getting out with shovels won't do any good because there is no place to put the snow except up on the sidewalks.
RG did a good job during winter weather when he was Mayor and so do some other cities that face the same types of problems NYC has with snow. Bloomberg(sp?)is an idiot and cares little for the people who live in his city unless they are muslims.
This should be the Dem's Katrina. In addition to the unions' purposely moving slow on NYC streets, Ray LaHood is silent on the airline backlog issue. HE helped issue regulations that fine airlines for long waits on tarmacs (why airlines cancelled so many flights)...long waits due to NO snow plowing by...THE UNIONS!!
Havoc of Storm of 2010...the Dem's fault!
The lawsuits are going to be amazing. Trial lawyers vs. Union thugs vs. bureacrats. This is going to get real ugly.
Anyone who plows snow for their job will tell you that during snowstorms they often work double shifts -- or even more. For anyone driving a vehicle that requires a commercial driver's license (CDL), there are some serious legal/safety ramifications to this that are usually ignored and swept under the rug. Federal regulations under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) prohibit the operation of a commercial vehicle (bus or truck) for more than 11 consecutive hours -- and prohibits a commercial driver from being "on duty" for more than 14 consecutive hours (during which he/she can actually be driving no more than the allotted 11 hours). The same Federal regulations require a driver to be off-duty for a minimum of ten consecutive hours after working a shift.
I wonder how many snowplow drivers are actually operating within those hours?
And the taxpayers are going to foot the entire bill -- including the legal fees AND the cost of the settlements.
Well, under this deliberate slow down I would say they were all within the legal hours and then some.
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