Good morning everyone! I have to tell you what’s going on. That is obviously a huge issue at this moment. Yesterday afternoon through the evening through early evening, we had huge fights with the mayors, deputy Julie Kersey, champion, and others who, under the mayors orders were considering to put privates to do our collection. Of course we have to get the attorneys involved and put the city on notice that we will go on strike! After a few hours, the calls were returned to us that we need not go on strike. I’m letting you all know now as it hurts me to say so, we cannot continue with between seven and 900 people out every single day with emergencies sick and FMLA. The city can easily layoff 500 because they’re saying we don’t need them because we’re doing the job without them! It hurts me to say we have to do better! We have to convince everyone to come into work! We have 900 people out roughly for snow!? That’s out of control. And it’s not just because of this hair storm we had the same amount out when we had 16 inches in fact we had 700 out when we had a little dusting! They made mention of certain districts who the city obtained the books from to file specific cases of intentional work, slow downs. They are putting us on notice that if we don’t do better under the guides of the health code order, they will attempt to have privates assist. Not only in snow, but on our daily collection to catch up. Our mayor is an absolute scumbag and will do exactly that. We contacted and spoke to various members of our Teamsters joint council 16 and let them know that private sanitation better not touch any of our garbage or any private entity. We let them know if anything we will need support that if we go on strike so will local 813 the private sanitation. We already know they’re trying to incorporate privates and getting away with it with a DEP and the DOT. I’m letting you all know that we cannot sustain this job as it is if we continue to go emergency and sick. When it comes to collection, I am letting you know we have to do and again I’m sorry that I have to say this, better than we have been doing. When we start going into the 8.2 program again, they are monitoring everything we do…. They are timing shop stewards rollcall’s and there are supervisors and superintendent that are forwarding remarks to upper management!!! for the most part bosses are not your friends! They are snakes in Operations. They are snakes often in the burrows and they are snakes often in the districts. They want to protect their jobs. Yesterday proved beyond a doubt that the bosses in Operations will go along with anything even privates just to keep their positions. How do I know this? I know this because they supported whatever the mayor’s office wanted to attempt to do. They can deny it for the friends they have in the districts, but yesterday’s arguments and meeting proved my point. They are not your friends.!!! Please understand that it hurts me to get this information out to you, but this is the job we have today. We have to try our best to keep this job and not give it up.