Sanitation workers spotted asleep on the job, apparently hanging out at a Coney Island Dunkin Donuts for 11 straight hours and some drinking beer for six or seven hours instead of working are all being probed.
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Sources tell Kramer that one of the most amazing charges being investigated concerns the reported refusal of some sanitation supervisors to give assignments to crews of Department of Transportation plows that were sent to sanitation districts to plow residential and secondary streets in the outer boroughs, leaving them impassable.

“They were there to be deployed to do the secondary streets while sanitation did primaries and they sat and waited and they radioed in and said what’s going on with the deployment and were told to sit and wait, they would be assigned,” Halloran said.

Kramer: “For six hours? For eight hours?”

Halloran: “For six to eight hours. In other words, one full shift.”

“If they find people that did criminal acts they’re going to arrest them,” Department of Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty said.

This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF.


The right's propaganda machine begins with a simple narrative, repeats it endlessly, and then ties current events to the narrative to drive the point home. The corporate/conservative right are currently working a narrative that public employees and their unions are the reason for state and local budget problems. This is repeated endlessly, and every current event that hits the news is then used to support the claim. This is how an untruth becomes "conventional wisdom."


Source Of Story: Three "Unidentified" Workers

Huge headline at the Drudge Report: NYC SNOW JOB: SLOW CLEAN-UP WAS UNION 'PROTEST' The headline links to a NY Post story, "Sanitation Department's slow snow cleanup was a budget protest." The source of the claim? Three "unidentified" plow workers. . .'
http://www.chimpsternation.com/forum?c=showthread&ThreadID=4851

It would be felony hit and run if anyone else had done that...why do the city workers get a pass?

Who told you it was a city worker and not a private contractor or it could had been a private citizen who so happen to own a company that use in there work a tractor or ect...., where's the fact's my friend, all i hear from you is conversation

Sanitation Dept. Gets Earful In Wake Of Cemetery Destruction

Desecration of venerated objects and/or criminal mischief

Dont ya think maybe they were told to dump snow there? Its tragic for sure but it sounds to me like it was poor supervision.

And? I'm sorry, but if I were told to destroy private property for my job, claiming "I was just following orders" isn't an excuse. Sure, this probably wasn't intentional, it was just negligence. But these guys should be held accountable. Thanks to the unions and the fact that they are government workers, it's very unlikely that anyone will be held accountable.

Hats off to the hard working men and woman in New York.

You have to put the snow SOMEWHERE. Granted its a bad place for it, but when your plowing snow, it does not magically disappear, it piles up and you have to put the pile elsewhere until you find a spot for it.

And? I'm sorry, but if I were told to destroy private property for my job, claiming "I was just following orders" isn't an excuse. Sure, this probably wasn't intentional, it was just negligence. But these guys should be held accountable. Thanks to the unions and the fact that they are government workers, it's very unlikely that anyone will be held accountable.

Sounds like to me that you had some kind of bad experience with the Unions as a whole, they may not be perfect but I'm very much thankful for there help in protecting workers rights and fair pay wages.

Union workers are, on average, the highest paid blue collar workers in the country.

Unions are also responsible for the near destruction of the US auto, railroad and airline industries.

Union workers are, on average, the highest paid blue collar workers in the country.

Unions are also responsible for the near destruction of the US auto, railroad and airline industries.