Sentences with phrase «dsny sanitation workers»

Which explains why recent allegations against the city's sanitation workers — known as «New York's Strongest» — left residents shaken.

Please don't insult the sanitation workers by comparing them to the charlatans who come out of the Ivy League semataries.

(4) It consists of asking people to imagine themselves in a culture where nearly all the people in charge, from the President to the sanitation worker, are women, where all the «mothers» are men, and where the male body is seen as weak and unclean.

So huge numbers of diapers, full of potentially infectious bacteria, are being dumped into our waste stream and posing potential health risks to sanitation workers and our public groundwater.

Also at 11 a.m., sanitation workers, NYC Councilman Antonio Reynoso and other elected officials call on the Council to regulate the private sanitation industry through legislative action, NYC Business Integrity Commission, 100 Church St., Manhattan.

Mr. Halloran is one of the most colorful characters on the City Council, and his bio includes the fact that he is the leader of a local Pagan group, had a videotaped confrontation with a ticket agent, and sparked a Department of Investigations inquiry after he claimed that he personally knew of sanitation workers who deliberately sloughed off snow removal during a blizzard to protest Bloomberg administration policies (the investigation found no truth to the claims).

At 1 p.m., unions and immigrant communities demand ICE release Eber Garcia Vasquez, a private sanitation worker and longtime member of the Teamsters union, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 26 Federal Pl., Manhattan.

Dr. King was in Memphis to lead a march protesting the working conditions and low wages of the city's sanitation workers, and in his final speech, he spoke of how racial and economic injustice are inextricably linked.

State Senator Bill Perkins, Assemblymembers Denny Farrell and Keith Wright, as well as several unions including District Council 37, United Federation of Teachers, New York State United Teachers, Civil Service Employees Association, Operating Engineers Local 891 and Sanitation Workers.

City leaders said they will take a strong look at the allegation that sanitation workers intentionally avoided plowing side streets in Queens.

Silver attributed the slow clean up to the size of the storm, and the fact that hundreds of sanitation workers have been laid off over the past year.

Nagle will present a brief overview of the history and structure of the DSNY and lead a discussion with a panel of DSNY sanitation workers.

Up until six years ago, governors routinely signed legislation shielding NYPD, FDNY, Department of Corrections and Department of Sanitation workers from cuts made to disability payouts for civil servant in less hazardous fields — allowing them to receive 75 percent of their former salary.

Less than two weeks later on Feb. 9, 54 - year - old sanitation worker Joseph Benzinger was discovered lying unconscious on the floor in a room at the Crown Motor Inn, 74 - 01 Queens Blvd., about 11:40 p.m..

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled today his solution to the ongoing conflict over pension payouts to cops, firefighters, corrections officers and sanitation workers hurt on the job — but union leaders said they remain unsatisfied.

QUEENS — Officials and community leaders are urging members of the LGBT community in Queens to be on alert after the choking deaths of a former city sanitation worker and teacher in Elmhurst and East Elmhurst over the last two weeks.

Mayor Bill de Blasio already has the endorsement of several city unions, including the sanitation workers, Mulgrew noted.

«Airport workers have had enough and are continuing to stand up for themselves in the spirit of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who told striking sanitation workers in Memphis, «We've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end,»» said Councilmember Andy King.

Sanitation workers said they felt the mayor had looked out for them and weren't worried about some of the other criticisms of de Blasio.

Scrapping the payout would save the city an estimated $ 1 billion a year — «the equivalent cost of more than 10,000 teachers, police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers, and correction officers,» Bloomberg told legislators on Monday.

I don't have any problem with him,» said Fred Ganzy, 45, a sanitation worker for 15 years.

In January, he had a private breakfast with Borough President James Oddo on the Island and greeted sanitation workers after a snowstorm.

Syracuse city councilors are hoping to convince state - level lawmakers to change a law that allows police, firefighters and sanitation workers to live outside the cities they work in.

A city sanitation worker was struck by a car and killed yesterday while crossing the street in Castle Hill.

At 9:30 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at the funeral for sanitation worker Steven Frosch, St. Catherine of Sienna Roman Catholic Church, 990 Holzheimer St., Franklin Square.

Harry Nespoli, the straight - talking Sanitation workers president, summed it up at the City Council hearing when he said the storm simply «got ahead of us.»»

A sanitation worker moves garbage ahead of a snow plow at Union Square.

In November, the mayor made a show of rolling out his labor support when he first declared for reelection, touting early endorsements from SEIU 32BJ, the Uniformed Sanitation Workers Union, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.

As part of the deal, the de Blasio administration and the sanitation workers» union will create a joint Labor - Management Committee on Productivity, which will review productivity targets related to the mayor's plan, announced last month, to cut all waste from landfills by 2030.

All five people who spoke during a public hearing on Poughkeepsie's proposed 2013 budget urged city officials not to lay off any sanitation workers or firefighters.

The sanitation workers worked «long, long hours and multiple shifts» and fought hard to get the city running again, he said, adding that he went out there and said that «some people got ta do better» but that the sanitation workers prevailed.

Men and women have until Friday, October 31 to apply to take the sanitation workers exam...

He also praised him fro securing three - quarter disability pay for sanitation workers hurt on the job, his rent freeze program and recognizing that their manpower was down to a mere 5500 jobs.

The de Blasio administration had also reach an agreement in December 2014 with the rest of the sanitation workers represented by the Sanitation Officers Association and the Uniformed Sanitation Chiefs Association.

Sanitation workers also gave up an effective guarantee of overtime work that had been in the previous contract.

De Blasio commended sanitation workers for their role in helping the city rebuild following Hurricane Sandy in 2012, as he battles the federal government over how effectively the city managed funds provided for the Build It Back program for homeowners and faces pressure from City Council members to speed up the rebuilding of homes.

The widow of a NYC Department of Sanitation worker who was crushed to death by a runaway street sweeper won a $ 41.5 million negligence award against the city.

The big unions — DC37, the sanitation workers, 32BJ SEIU — have already endorsed de Blasio.

That's for your own safety and to allow the sanitation workers to do their work so they can clear the roads for everyone else's safety.

The city is already investigating allegations that disgruntled sanitation workers may have intentionally slowed cleanup efforts to protest recent budget cuts.

Thousands of people plan actions to honor Dr. King's fight for basic freedom for sanitation workers and protest the rigged economy, just days before Supreme Court will hear case meant to attack working people Manhattan, NY — Today, leaders from -LSB-...]

On the last day of his life, Dr. King was supporting a controversial movement for fair wages and safe working conditions for black sanitation workers.

Barry Grodenchik, a former assemblyman and deputy Queens borough president, announced he had secured the backing of Teamsters Local 831, which represents the city's sanitation workers.

The mayor has also began using Trump as a foil in his re-election campaign, warning the sanitation workers» union which endorsed him Monday that Washington may turn against labor unions.

Another source said the effort from the Speaker was well - intentioned, and that Mark - Viverito and her staff are considering whether to include other uniformed workers in the legislation, such as sanitation workers.

On Wednesday, Brooklyn Councilman Greenfield will introduce a bill to ban sanitation workers from slapping neon green shame stickers on cars that violate alternate side parking rules.

Clinton pointed out that the legislation was signed on the same day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, during a period when he was fighting for better wages and working conditions for sanitation workers.

Correction officers, firefighters, and sanitation workers all reached deals with the city earlier this week to increase disability pensions.

Sanitation workers averaged 11.5 paid sick days while police and fire fighters took around seven sick days each.

The SHARPS Disposal Program is an environmentally responsible method to dispose of unwanted needles, lancets and syringes, which are a potential danger to sanitation workers and the environment when disposed of improperly.