Big union; big neglect

UPDATE: Over 10% (500 workers) called in sick those days. Salaries of municipal workers are much higher than private industry workers. 325 sanitation workers make over $100,000 a year without overtime. AND: Many retired employees receive health, dental and vision insurance without paying a penney.
  Big government. Big unions. Big demands. 
  We are faced with people who no longer feel anything for human beings, but rather only for themselves and their hive of union thugs.
  We are faced with leaders who are quick to defend politically correct causes such as the NYC mosque but then quick to criticize the citizens of New York for complaining about their employees' incompetence.
  New York City is perhaps a harbinger of things to come with health care, which will eventually deteriorate into nothing but government health care as regulations and restrictions strangle private insurance companies.
  Most everyone has the story today from the New York Post, as concerned NYC sanitation workers have come forward, only to be labeled "snitches" (what happened to whistle blower), for telling the truth about what their bosses instructed them to do in the recent snow emergency last weekend.
  Why would sanitation workers be "guilt ridden," as the NY Post describes them?
  Because they did what they're told by their union bosses, who were protesting recent cuts in their department, as the city struggles with a deficit of up to $4.5 billion.
  Rather than be concerned with the fact that their city has not only run out of money, but is deeply in debt, the workers want more.
  Instead of working with the city's medics to respond to emergency calls, for example, working in tandem with ambulances, the sanitation workers did the following:

1. Did not lower their shovels entirely to intentionally leave a layer of snow 
2. worked slowly to accrue overtime pay
3. avoided plowing main streets
4. did not call all workers in on the weekend

  In addition, mysteriously the head of the sanitation department's street was bone dry, shoveled clean, while the streets next to his were not.
 Here's visual evidence from the New York Daily News from Tuesday:

Bonifacio/News The Staten Island street outside Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty's home. 

The street around the corner from Doherty's street tells a different story.  Bonifacio/News

  Mayor Bloomberg's street was also plowed clean.

  Although much of this snow mess has to be attributed to the lack of leadership on the part of NYC's Nolabels Mayor Bloomberg, who has probably lost any bid for national office through this ordeal, the union leaders are also to blame. The following questions need to be answered: 

• Why couldn't the Red Cross reach the airports which were full of people who had run out of food and blankets? 
• Why did NO city services come to the aid of the stranded passengers?
• Why weren't ambulances paired with snow plows? 
• Why were not all the stops pulled out to relieve the city's misery, only later to prove the usefulness and loyalty of union workers, rather than the criminal neglect that resulted? 

  If this is the way government unions react in the nation's largest city, can we expect anything better from a national health care system, which will most certainly be unionized and politicized?

  The best roundup of bad behavior is here at the Frugal Cafe.

  In addition, there is some question that the new government rules regarding fines of $27,000 per passenger over a 3 hour wait imposed for passengers waiting on the tarmac may have  added to the problems. More regulations.

  Numerous deaths, still untold, have resulted from this barbarous behavior; the baby's is only one but the most poignant example of a life started and ended in misery because of the malfeasance of human beings who only think of themselves and money first, not the job which they signed on for or their loyalty to fellow humans, the most vulnerable of whom died this last weekend.

  Let the death of this child be on the heads of those who have sworn to protect the people of New York City.