Hail The People's Collective of New York City (Snow Removal)

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As New York City finishes cleaning up the mess of the recent debilitating blizzard, it also faces allegations that union workers entrusted with cleaning up the mess of snow decided to stage a slowdown as the blizzard hit.
The plan was to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts, several sources and a city lawmaker told the New York Post. The lawmaker, City Councilman Dan Halloran, underscored those claims in an interview Thursday on Fox News' "Your World."
Halloran said he met with three plow workers from the Sanitation Department -- and two Department of Transportation supervisors who were on loan -- at his office after he was flooded with irate calls from constituents. The workers said the work slowdown was pushed by supervisors, not the unions, as the result of growing hostility between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the workers responsible for clearing the snow.
"They're saying that the shops that they worked in ... basically had the go ahead to take their time, that they wouldn't be be supervised, that if they missed routes it wasn't going to be a problem," Halloran told Fox News.

In the last two years, the agency's workforce has been slashed by 400 trash haulers and supervisors -- down from 6,300 -- because of the city's budget crisis. And, effective Friday, 100 department supervisors are to be demoted and their salaries slashed as an added cost-saving move. Sources said budget cuts were also at the heart of poor planning for the blizzard last weekend.

The blizzard struck days before 100 Sanitation Department supervisors in charge of coordinating the plowing fleet were scheduled to be demoted in a budget-cutting move. The timing of the demotions, scheduled for Jan. 1, ignited the initial speculation that disgruntled supervisors had purposely sabotaged the snow removal effort in an act of revenge.

"I don't think it took place, but we are going to do an investigation to make sure that it didn't," Bloomberg said Thursday.

Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty said he was also concerned but had seen no sign of a such a move. The heads of the two unions that represent sanitation department supervisors and rank-and-file workers said the rumors were false and insulting.

Joseph Mannion, president of the Sanitation Officers Association, which represents about 1,000 supervisors and has been fighting the pending demotions, called that claim "ludicrous."

There would never be a coordination to do anything in the snow. It's absolutely a taboo issue," he said. "You never, ever play with people's lives. And that's what they are saying we did."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/30/union-workers-reportedly-staged-slowdown-new-york-city-battled-blizzard/#ixzz19iM6EMc8

Oh, what a wonderful Nirvana the City Government Union Workers of New York have created. In order to force the evil taxpayers of the city to cough up more, they followed the great collective worker ideas of the Soviet Union, with one caveat - We pretend to work, but in the process, we'll chalk up overtime hours, to force you to pay us even more.

Hail the People's Collective of New York City, where the Unions Rule the Collective.

Comrades,

Keep this information to yourselves. Do not give the author of Shakedown Socialism any ideas about adding an extra chapter to the section of the book that speaks of how unions shake down the people. It already reveals too much. The people must be kept in the dark about this, in order to insure that collective unions will continue to divide and conquer.

 

Leninka, I was thrilled to see that yesterday before a big snow storm in Minnesota a garage where all a city's snow removal equipment was stored mysteriously burned to the ground. I'm not suggesting that the fire that engulfed the cinder block building was suspicious (even though a frontend loader parked outside the building was also burning as if someone doused it with gasoline). But I wouldn't be surprised if the town was mired in some dispute with their Union workers over some issue like layoffs or pay cuts.
 

It pleases my ears to hear of the people's kollective victory over rogue uprising of small band of agitators who stooped to new lows by killing own baby in the snow and blaming the people's sanitation workers! This is plot of capitalist running-dogs to defeat the people's revolution! Too many agitators, not enough bullets comrades.
 

Comrade Whoopie

...But I wouldn't be surprised if the town was mired in some dispute with their Union workers over some issue like layoffs or pay cuts.

Comrade, this is dangerous filthy capitalist propaganda as verified by the State Department of Truth! The great people of NYC kollective await soon to be announced proof of how the capitalist rogues planned and manipulated weather to cause the peoples to be frozen!
 

Comrades,

We should collectively thank Mayor Doomberg, his lack of any response upheld the highest standards of the know nothing party!
 

How dare the tool of the Reich Bloombourgeois deprive the People's Sanitation Workers the RIGHT to collect taxpayers dollars? Particularily in light of the hellish bouts of global warming global climate change that have led to disasterous world-ending blizzards and monumentus amounts of snow? These are some of the best trained snow removal experts on the face of the Gia earth and TheBloombourg would do such a patently hateful thing? Why, look at the expert job they are capable of!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_r-jO3lKE&feature=player_embedded

Most assured worth every ruble!
 

Comrade Kool-Aid_Man, kudos for the excellent presentation of how well-trained public servants deal with potentially illegally parked cars cheaply made by the only US car company too foolish to accept government advice. Not only was the rightfully destroyed vehicle a gas-guzzling SUV which is making Gaia cry, but there was clearly visible in the video a ONE WAY sign on the lamp-post in the background which the vehicle in question defied by not going that way. I'd say social justice was well served here. Great job!
 

Comrade Whoopie,

Whatever happens in Mineesota seems to exude and drip its way all the way to the Franken Senate seat on the senate floor, no?

Comrades,

(that includes you, Comrade Tooorisky), aren't you delighted in Comrades like Bloomberg? Pretend to be a Reichwinger Conservagative, and then, wham, do the old switcheroo. These are the type of progs we need to cultivate, because, after all, how else are we going to get elected in the future?