Sentences with phrase «city sanitation worker»

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

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.

Not exact matches

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

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).

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.

Halloran said five city workers, including two Department of Transportation and three Sanitation Department employees assigned to Queens, told him the day before that they were asked by supervisors «to take their time» plowing roads because the «mayor's office doesn't care about them.»

The workers told Halloran they were ordered to do this because of cuts the mayor made to the city Sanitation Department.

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

The city has also proposed privatizing the operation of four of the city's marine transfer stations for garbage, which would force the Department of Sanitation to shed 248 uniformed workers and an additional 54 civilian staffers through attrition in 2013.

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

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.

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.

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.»»

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.

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 hocity 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 hocity managed funds provided for the Build It Back program for homeowners and faces pressure from City Council members to speed up the rebuilding of hoCity Council members to speed up the rebuilding of homes.

She also discussed the effort by some to prohibit uniformed city workers, the NYPD, FDNY and Sanitation, from marching in uniform and under identifying banners.

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

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.

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

Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech «I've Been to the Mountaintop» was delivered in Memphis in solidarity with the city's sanitation workers.

In the city, firefighters, police, and sanitation workers had recently signed five - year contracts that awarded wage and benefit increases of 13.3 percent.

Citywide performance with 8,500 Sanitation workers across all 59 New York City Sanitation districts.

A wall of sanitation workers carrying «I AM A MAN» placards and police in riot gear on the 28th; Dr. King returning to Memphis on the 3rd; giving his historic «Mountaintop» speech at the Mason Temple; and the memorial march to City Hall on the 8th are among his evocative, iconic images.

The show interprets these practices broadly, encompassing both the reiteration of physical marks in a Yayoi Kusama painting and the repeated act undertaken by Mierle Laderman Ukeles for Touch Sanitation, a multi-year project that involved shaking hands with every sanitation worker in New Sanitation, a multi-year project that involved shaking hands with every sanitation worker in New sanitation worker in New York City.

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