{"id":16871,"date":"2010-12-30T08:28:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16871"},"modified":"2010-12-30T08:28:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T14:28:08","slug":"alliance-for-a-better-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16871","title":{"rendered":"Alliance For A &#8220;Better&#8221; New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York&#8217;s snow-plowing disaster was apparently a union labor slowdown,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/sanit_filthy_snow_slow_mo_qH57MZwC53QKOJlekSSDJK\"> says the NYPost<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts &#8212; a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Miles of roads stretching from as north as Whitestone, Queens, to the south shore of Staten Island still remained treacherously unplowed last night because of the shameless job action, several sources and a city lawmaker said, which was over a raft of demotions, attrition and budget cuts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Allowing government workers to unionize has always been a stupid idea, but that cow&#8217;s pretty much left the barn.\u00a0 For now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They sent a message to the rest of the city that these particular labor issues are more important,&#8221; said City Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Queens), who was visited yesterday by a group of guilt-ridden sanitation workers who confessed the shameless plot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With unions\/Democrats (pardon the redundancy) at a low ebb nationwide, look for a lot more of this.<\/p>\n<p>And bear in mind, I have nothing against unions.\u00a0 Just as companies and producers and wholesalers try to work the market for their products to their advantage in a free market, so should labor.\u00a0 Unlike most DFLers, I&#8217;ve actually <em>been <\/em>a union member.<\/p>\n<p>But when unions control government &#8211; as they do in places like, well, the Twin Cities &#8211; this is what you get; public safety is a chip in the collective bargaining stakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York&#8217;s snow-plowing disaster was apparently a union labor slowdown, says the NYPost: Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts &#8212; a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned. Miles of roads stretching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16872,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871\/revisions\/16872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}