Thousands of New York City employees on unpaid leave pending vaccination
New York City’s municipal workers, who have not received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, face unpaid leave. These employees include police officers, firefighters, sanitation, etc. About 9,000 were placed on unpaid leave today, while others are awaiting the results of their accommodation requests.
From Fox News:
Under a city mandate, those who haven’t received at least one dose of the vaccine would be put on unpaid leave starting Monday, raising the possibility of shortages of police, fire and EMS workers. New York has more than 300,000 employees.
The police department, which employs about 36,000 officers and 19,000 civilian employees, reported an 84% vaccination rate as of Sunday evening, while the fire department said that 80% of its employees were vaccinated — 75% of firefighters, 87% of EMTS and 90% of civilian employees.
City officials have considered various measures to deal with an expected staffing shortfall set to happen Monday.
The fire department has said it was prepared to close up to 20% of its fire companies and have 20% fewer ambulances in service while also changing schedules, canceling vacations and turning to outside EMS providers to make up for expected staffing shortages.
De Blasio said the sanitation department will move to 12-hour shifts, as opposed to the usual 8-hour shifts, and begin working Sundays to ensure trash doesn’t pile up.
Fox News has the balance of the story here.
Category: COVID-19
I’m certain that most of the available staff aren’t just going to accept extended shifts and cancelled vacations lying down.
Don’t want a vaccination, don’t get one. Rolling your own dice. Maybe infect someone else – if they chose not to get vaccinated and rolled their own dice, they threw boxcars. Wait, they are vaccinated? Then they are immune! But they aren’t and got sick anyway, so does the vaccination work? I am so confused…
Just follow the “science” by tuning in here each day so that we can tell you what the “science” is.
Science is fluid like sexual identification.
Example:
“my wife just gave birth”
“thats great, boy or a girl?”
“we haven’t decided yet”
“no, I meant your wife”
The fluidity of science is in regard to the politics of the speaker.
“I believe XYZ”
“and you’re conservative, yes”
“Yes”
“Then the science doesn’t back you up.”
Overtime lot’s of OT city leaders will whine about OT costs and accuse Firefighters and cops of making far to much money, others will blame the unions. Sorry bad management decisions have costs and this boneheaded move is going to be expensive, very expensive. Wait and see how the guy’s sucking up the OT will be vilified. It will cost NYC dearly. Going to be very happy to see some of these guys making 200k +.
Especially when all this beaucoup overtime is eaten up by the guys pumping up their high 3/5 so they can retire. You’ll have people pulling in $250k easily. Major boost in pension payout when that happens for a couple years.
I knew guys that took on “part time” side gigs working at the airport or transit PD. Using accrued sick and vacation to work minimally at their full time job, they would work essentially full time at the side job. Basically double salary for their final few years to game the system. Since NYPD has had so many people retiring that they literally couldn’t keep up with the paperwork, I foresee this being quite lucrative for those who held out a little bit.
Can’t blame them if OTs available and if you are fortunate enough to have a contract that bases pension on best years, you would be a fool not to take every shift you can and bail. Let em bitch all they want, it’s not like these cities don’t try to fuck PD and FD every chance they can.
Boston Herald did a story not long ago of paramedics that were pushing $300k last year.
I have had the desire to enjoy the fruits of NYC once. No longer. Until the gov’ment gets back to its mandate; safety, security, sanitation, and enabling free people to commerce; she’s dead to me.
I’ve been following this guy for awhile, he’s rough but an honest man, with a healthy New Yorker vocabulary.
Language and freedom warning:
https://youtu.be/NBHm1qw_M5M
Are some of the articles at the Duffel Blog leaning left or is it just my anti-Communist paranoia?
Commies get into everything… ask Lars.
So, we are no longer going with “My Body; My choice”?
Talked with a ‘Constitution-loving’ lawer (sic) for a major pharmaceutical company involved with the vaxxxxxxxxxxxine, they were very much supportive of methods to ‘reenforce public health via mandates’.
[Base principles]? We don’t need no stinking [base principles]!
Nope, what Commies really what in “My Way; My Choice”– anything they don’t like can go blow.
Someone started a rumor last week that FDNY is going to ask for M/A from Nassau County Volunteer companies to come into nyc but The Nassau County Fire Commision and Nassau County Fire Marshals office never received anything. The signed M/A agreement was made up after 9/11 and stipulates that mutual aid will be provided in emergencies and not during labor disputes. I received the official memo from one of my friends who is involved in one of the counties EOC and gets these memos/letters from the County Fire Marshal’s office. To keep in shape, their are MOBEX where Nassau/Suffolk County Volunteer FirFighters go across the County line and cross train with FDNY Companies in different boroughs. This was also started after 9/11.
That’s not gonna work, most Long Island volleys aren’t stupid enough to get involved in a pissing match with the FDNY union. And 1/2 the volunteer officers in Suffolk county are either active or retired FDNY. Also what’s the vaccination rates in the volley depts? A lot of these young volunteers dream of being FDNY someday, life will be difficult if they get a reputation for fucking over a future brother.
I put in 30 years as an FD Volly in two Depts and we had FDNY guys whom were also Vollies. Sad to say that When I was on Ladder 2, LBFD we Had FDNY Capt. Terry Hatton, FDNY Rescue 1 with us and on our Tower ladder, FF Kenny “Igor” Marino FDNY Rescue 1 lost on 9/11 plus 2 retired members from post 9/11 illness.
The Nassau/ Suffolk volly depts are full of FDNY guys and at the end of the day I doubt many of them have any desire to have volunteers helping to man city fire stations. The guy’s I know certainly won’t advocate helping Deblasio screw over their brothers.
That was Beetlejuice’s solution to a lack of cops in Chicago. We’ll just call in mutual aid! Except the agencies around her told her to fuck off if it’s not a dead/dying cop.
You mean Laurie Lightfoot?
Can’t the City Of New York go down to the local Home Depot and hire some Day Labor First Responders?
They too busy being Doctors and Engineers and such.
And politicians throughout the five boroughs.
No habla.
How long before they activate the National Guard for this? That seems to be the politicians’ new favorite play thing. There’s no problem calling up the NG can’t fix!
YES! If we ALL work for the State, and the State IS US, the State will never have shortages!
Comrade. You. are. a. GENIUS!
There is a part of me that enjoys this from the “Let’s Go Brandon” perspective, and another part of me that enjoys it from the “Well if they only complied and stopped resisting they would have kept their jobs” perspective….
That latter part stems from a relative distrust of those entrusted with enforcing the law in these United States I realize, but it doesn’t make it any less enjoyable to see them squirm while facing a potential negative consequence of a definitive choice of action they’ve made. Those previously entrusted with enforcing the law have had so many preferential rules and treatment that now facing the same treatment as the rest of us feels like oppression to them, there’s a lesson there should anyone choose to learn it.
Choices, we all make them but we are not free from the consequences of those choices.
All that said and yet for me there remains a far more enjoyable aspect to it all, that some of our fellow Americans might finally understand what government over reach actually looks like. More government always results in government over reach. Statists always enjoy using the state to achieve their objectives, regardless of political affiliation. Statists often act with the motivation they are doing something positive, usually while interfering in the lives of the citizens, while believing wholeheartedly it’s for the good of those being interfered with…in that regard we should all object to these mandates and we should all resist them and remind the government they represent us, they do not rule us.
That was my favorite lesson from the January 6th incident that government can learn to fear the governed once again should we the governed decide simply to stop obeying.
“Statists always enjoy using the state to achieve their objectives, regardless of political affiliation.”
THIS!!!!!!!
And it bears repeating:
Statists always enjoy using the state to achieve their objectives, regardless of political affiliation.
Statists always enjoy using the state to achieve their objectives, regardless of political affiliation.
Statists always enjoy using the state to achieve their objectives, regardless of political affiliation.
Ok, I’m done.
psych! Statists always enjoy using the state to achieve their objectives, regardless of political affiliation.
Fuck the State.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(economic_theory)
“…once again should we the governed decide simply to stop obeying.” Word!
It’s coming.
“…that government can learn to fear the governed once again should we the governed decide simply to stop obeying.”
That right there is one of the most terrifying things a critter in DC could ever read.
VoV – sounds like you are OK with the police/firefighter getting laid off because they chose not to get vaccinated – the same folks who worked through Covid and all the quarantines. I suspect you may mean you are OK with those CREATING these laws being inconvenienced, rather than the beat cops and firefighters responsible for ENFORCING them. Please clarify.
I won’t claim to speak for VoV, but I can see an argument that the beat cops and firefighters who opted not to get vaccinated deserve the (known) consequences of their decision.
I don’t support the mandates, personally, and I feel they are both anathema to the classic liberalism on which this great American experiment was built and counter to current economic demands; yet, those mandates were put in place by (arguably) duly-elected leaders and representative of the will of the majority (though not respecting the interests of the minority).
I support those officers and firefighters in their stance, and hope they ultimately prevail, but they knew the risks of not taking the vaccine and – by their own choices – must now face the established consequences.
I can speak to this aspect of this battle: hospital systems (in my state) have enforcement of the annual flu vaccine as precedence. No flu shot – no work – unless allergic to the vaccine. Court battles pop up, but I think all have lost.
BUT, IT’S TEH COVID!!! TAKE THE JAB!!!
Hey yeah, where has he been for all this late breaking news? On a bus bound for Virginia to disrupt the election? Too busy with his academic overlords putting their stubby heads together searching for a way to advance the progressive country killing bills another yard?