Why unions are a threat

Sanitation workers neglected snowpocalypse to protest Mayor Bloomberg --

"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," reports the New York Post.

Slammed by several feet of snow, New York City has turned into a classic example of a city whose government is incapable of meeting the basic requirements of governing. Now we know why: "They sent a message to the rest of the city that these particular labor issues are more important," said Queens councilmember Dan Halloran, who was earlier "visited by a group of guilt-ridden sanitation workers who confessed the shameless plot."

According to Halloran, "They were told [by supervisors] to take off routes [and] not do the plowing of some of the major arteries in a timely manner. They were told to make the mayor pay for the layoffs, the reductions in rank for the supervisors, shrinking the rolls of the rank-and-file." Three cheers for public servants.

Source: DC Morning

Note from the right jack: In a news conference spin, Gov Patterson [D-NY] did not mention that the union was the source of their winter blizzard troubles.