New York is moving towards fully reopening.
In NYC, 80,000 city employees will return this week. They’ve had a year long paid vacation, it’s time.
But city employee unions have learned something from teacher unions, who are masters in delay and exaggerated safety concerns.
In NYC, 80,000 city employees will return this week. They’ve had a year long paid vacation, it’s time.
But city employee unions have learned something from teacher unions, who are masters in delay and exaggerated safety concerns.
The union demand is for no return to work until at least September, giving everyone a version of the summer vacation teachers have.
Over the weekend, hundreds of union members gathered outside City Hall to protest any return to work. "We as city workers are concerned that the mayor's hasty return to office planning is all risk and no reward," one speaker shouted. Um, isn’t a paycheck a reward?
Even the leftist Mayor Bill de Blasio expressed frustration and notes that the vast majority of city workers have been vaccinated. “People need to come back because we have work to do…and we are public servants."
It’s just a question of who they are serving.
It’s just a question of who they are serving.
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