Hope for a warm winter, sanitation union says

The number of city sanitation workers has dipped so low that they may not be able to handle a big snowstorm, union officials told the New York Daily News. Harry Nespoli, president of the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association, said the, “the city is rolling the dice,” by maintaining only 5,800 workers on the job, compared with 6,216 one year ago and 6,473 in 2008. The city has hired only 200 sanitation workers since 2008, but hundreds more have retired, Nespoli said.