Sentences with phrase «sanitation workers who»

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).

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.

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

Marshall also honored Sanitation Department workers Semi Nkozi and Joseph Maneggio, who rescued a group of children from a burning Far Rockaway building in December; Detectives Richard Johnson and Charles Lo Presti, who arrested a suspect in the Jan. 1 firebombing of an Islamic center in Jamaica; and 91 - year - old World War II veteran Arno Heller of Rego Park.

«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.

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.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

And yesterday, unions held rallies across the country in an attempt to channel Martin Luther King who died 43 years ago in Memphis while supporting striking sanitation workers.

Cassidy's mesmerizing narration reveals the apian world of Flora 717, a lowly sanitation worker bee who rises through the hive's strict hierarchy amid multiple disasters and political unrest.

Imagining what would happen if the sexual awakening of puberty were averted, Jenny Drumgoole's videos present her alter - ego named Soxx who turns traditional women's behavior on its head by throwing parties for sanitation workers, eating pudding for hire, and running for Mayor of Philadelphia.