Co-op City Residents Glad Trash is Gone

Residents of Co-op City in the Bronx were thankful that the Department of Health ordered the Department of Sanitation to remove trash that had been piling up during the building workers strike. The sanitation department will not cross the picket lines unless ordered to by the health department, but residents were glad they did. Kevin Pierre, 32, told the Post. "I'm ecstatic. The raccoons were eating the garbage." The complex produces 40 tons of trash per day, but another resident said, "I've lived here all my life, and this is the worst I've ever seen it."

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By Jaya Saxena in News on June 5, 2010 1:20 PM

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Artbeatnik

This was not a union issue the City officials determine when and what is to be picked up by DSNY Sanitation workers. Once given the order it was done. For your sake I hope there is never a strike like there was in the 1970's because you would not know what to do with all of the garbage and rats.

The job is so far removed from the mob and mafia that it's not even funny. It's not the 70's anymore.

Give the men and women of DSNY a little respect as they do something that no one else wants to do they just want to criticize us, and not know of the hazards that we deal with.

whitecastlerock

Will the mobbed up sanitation workers be docked for not working on the days they were supposed to be?

Spirit of 76

40 tons for 60,000 people. That's 1.3 pounds of garbage per person per day. I'd say they're generating way too much garbage. I put out a pound a week. Stop eating so much take-out and delivered meals!

As for the garbagemen (don't mince words; that's what they are and that's all they deserve to be called), just do their goddamn jobs and don't worry about picket lines. They're being paid and it's not their contract being negotiated. This "union solidarity" BS got tiresome 30 years ago.

Guest

"I'm ecstatic. The raccoons were eating the garbage."

as smart (or sneaky) as raccoons are, only if we can strike a deal with raccoons on how to handle the garbage...