Extortion Is Always The Best Weapon

By Semperpapa

There are allegations in New York that union workers slow their efforts of cleaning the streets of snow to put pressure on city officials in view of budget cuts.

The union has rejected the accusations, but some remorseful plow workers confessed the action to a NY councilman, Dan Halloran.

According to the New York Post, the workers admitted that they were ordered to slow their response to the clean up efforts, following the blizzard that hit and paralyzed the city this week.
The record snow falling created nightmare conditions for the citizens of New York and for emergency services that were unable to respond to calls for help because of the inability to negotiate the snow covered streets.
One woman in Brooklyn, who had fallen in her home and broken her ankle, waited 30 hours before emergency personnel was able to reach her house.

Sanitation Dept. workers have been in a fight with mayor Bloomberg for budget cuts the union sees as unfair. The union, meanwhile, strongly rejects the allegations, but it appears that there have been instances of plowers operators running their vehicles with blades too high so that the clean up would require additional passes hence allowing the operators to have to work longer hours. Which translated in more pay.

While the responsibility for shady work ethics fall on the workers and union leadership (extortion from a union: what a novelty!), the ultimate responsibility remains with the mayor.
Bloomberg was quick to dump blame in every possible direction, including the very people he is supposed to be serving, accusing New Yorkers of causing problems by their shoveling the snow from their front yards into the streets.

Considering that New York has the highest taxes per capita, the failure of Bloomberg to effectively respond to the crisis must be remembered when this man will tell the American people that we should trust him to lead us from the White House.

Bloomberg is not even capable to stand up to extortion from union thugs, how well would he do standing up to his radical Islamic friends?

Just my thoughts!