{"id":941673,"date":"2021-10-30T12:59:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T16:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=941673"},"modified":"2021-10-30T12:59:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T16:59:24","slug":"trash-is-piling-up-in-nyc-and-some-are-blaming-the-citys-vax-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trash-is-piling-up-in-nyc-and-some-are-blaming-the-citys-vax-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Trash Is Piling Up In NYC And Some Are Blaming The City\u2019s Vax Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrash-is-piling-up-in-nyc-and-some-are-blaming-the-citys-vax-mandate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=941673&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Trash piled up in areas of New York City leading up to the deadline for city workers to get their COVID-19 vaccine, which was October 29.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/trash-piles-vaccination-deadline-looms-nyc-workers-n1282666?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=news_tab&amp;utm_content=algorithm\">reported<\/a> that people have been posting about missed trash collections on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMissed collections were reported in Staten Island and Brooklyn. And residents have taken to social media in outrage over the accumulating garbage and to raise concern that the slowdown is intentional in protest of the vaccine mandate,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>More from NBC:<\/p>\n<p><em>Mayor Bill de Blasio, who announced last week that city workers were required to have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by Friday at 5 p.m. or be placed on unpaid leave, said that supervisors at the department of sanitation would not allow missed collections to continue, though neither he nor the sanitation department would say if the slowdown was on purpose.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnyone who is not doing their job, you\u2019re harming your fellow sanitation workers, and you\u2019re harming your neighbors, and you\u2019re harming your city,\u201d de Blasio said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s time to stop.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NYC\u2019s sanitation department released its own statement, saying it was \u201caware that there are collection delays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-seven percent of NYC sanitation workers are vaccinated, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nyc-could-lose-thirty-percent-of-its-police-force-fire-department-over-vaccine-mandate\">reported<\/a>, NYC is struggling to get city workers vaccinated after implementing a mandate. The city could lose up to 30% of its police force and fire department now that the deadline to receive the vaccine has passed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York City took one of its most aggressive steps yet to increase vaccination rates in a city that was once the epicenter of the pandemic, requiring almost every member of the nation\u2019s largest municipal workforce to get vaccinated by the end of the month or lose their paychecks,\u201d The New York Times reported last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new mandate by Mayor Bill de Blasio, following similar requirements for teachers and health care workers that led to a surge in vaccinations, is intended to persuade thousands of city workers who have resisted getting the shot to do so before the winter,\u201d the outlet added.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Quartz estimated that about \u201c6,500 New York Police Department (NYPD) employees\u2014or roughly 30% of the agency\u2019s total workforce of 36,000 officers and 19,000 civilians\u201d would be affected, since they had refused to get the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday, NYC\u2019s firefighters union warned that the city\u2019s 911 dispatchers and emergency medical technicians could also see a major drop in its workforce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trash piled up in areas of New York City leading up to the deadline for city workers to get their COVID-19 vaccine, which was October 29.NBC News reported that people have been posting about missed trash collections on social media.\u201cMissed collections were reported in Staten Island and Brooklyn. And residents have taken to social media in outrage over the accumulating garbage and to raise concern that the slowdown is intentional in protest of the vaccine mandate,\u201d the outlet reported.More from NBC:Mayor Bill de Blasio, who announced last week that city workers were required to have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by Friday at 5 p.m. or be placed on unpaid leave, said that supervisors at the department of sanitation would not allow missed collections to continue, though neither he nor the sanitation department would say if the slowdown was on purpose.\u201cAnyone who is not doing their job, you\u2019re harming your fellow sanitation workers, and you\u2019re harming your neighbors, and you\u2019re harming your city,\u201d de Blasio said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s time to stop.\u201dNYC\u2019s sanitation department released its own statement, saying it was \u201caware that there are collection delays.\u201dSixty-seven percent of NYC sanitation workers are vaccinated, the outlet reported.As The Daily Wire reported, NYC is struggling to get city workers vaccinated after implementing a mandate. The city could lose up to 30% of its police force and fire department now that the deadline to receive the vaccine has passed.\u201cNew York City took one of its most aggressive steps yet to increase vaccination rates in a city that was once the epicenter of the pandemic, requiring almost every member of the nation\u2019s largest municipal workforce to get vaccinated by the end of the month or lose their paychecks,\u201d The New York Times reported last week.\u201cThe new mandate by Mayor Bill de Blasio, following similar requirements for teachers and health care workers that led to a surge in vaccinations, is intended to persuade thousands of city workers who have resisted getting the shot to do so before the winter,\u201d the outlet added.Last week, Quartz estimated that about \u201c6,500 New York Police Department (NYPD) employees\u2014or roughly 30% of the agency\u2019s total workforce of 36,000 officers and 19,000 civilians\u201d would be affected, since they had refused to get the vaccine.Last Wednesday, NYC\u2019s firefighters union warned that the city\u2019s 911 dispatchers and emergency medical technicians could also see a major drop in its workforce due to the mandate.Other cities with vaccine mandates have not seen the major employment drops even as their deadlines came and went, The Daily Wire reported.\u201cChicago, one of the first municipalities to institute such a mandate over the objections of unions, was bracing for a similar walk-off, but just 21 officers were placed on unpaid leave for not reporting their vaccination status to city officials. Chicago noted that around 67% of the police force had entered its vaccination status and around 80% had received at least one dose of the vaccine,\u00a0according to The Associated Press,\u201d The Daily Wire noted.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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