De Blasio lets NYC rot: Garbage begins piling up across the Big Apple after nearly 1,440 sanitation workers were placed on leave for failing to get vaccinated
BRIAN STIEGLITZ and CHRISTINA COULTER | 4 November 2021, 03:11 EDT | UPDATED: 07:13 EDTHeaps of garbage have been piling up across New York City as about 1,440 of the city's 7,200 sanitation workers, nearly 20%, are placed on administrative leave for not complying with Mayor Bill de Blasio's vaccine mandate for municipal workers – which Mayor-elect Eric Adams has promised to revisit.
Adams won yesterday's mayoral election with a landslide 68 percent of the vote over Republican opponent Curtis Sliwa's 28.8 percent. He has already promised to sit down with unions to negotiate vaccine mandates that have not only impacted waste collection throughout the city but have also stretched the FDNY thin.
As of yesterday, 23 percent of the FDNY's 11,000 firefighters are still not vaccinated and few have been given religious or medical exemptions, meaning 2,530 who haven't had the shots yet cannot report for duty.
2,300 are on sick leave, meaning nearly a third of the force's 11,000 uniformed firefighters aren't on the streets.
What has been on the streets, however, is an inordinate amount of garbage bags piling up since Monday. . .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10163933/Garbage-piles-NYC-20-sanitation-workers-protest-vaccine-mandate.html
I seem to recall one mayoral candidate vowing to put an end to this. Guess what New Yorkers chose? I don't want to hear any of them whining about rats on the West Side , bedbugs up town, what a mess. This town's in tatters.
(shattered)
