Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts -- a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned.

"They sent a message to the rest of the city that these particular labor issues are more important," said City Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Queens), who was visited yesterday by a group of guilt-ridden sanitation workers who confessed the shameless plot.

There's only one solution to this crap: Break the public employee unions, repudiate all their pensions, including previously "earned" ones, and tell them all go straight to Hell.

Every last one of them.

This sort of "job action" is a common tactic among public employee unions.  Among private employees this sort of "action" would lead to an immediate lock-out and/or non-union replacement hiring in response but among the public employee unions they think they can get away with this crap on a routine basis.  That premise comes from the pussified alleged "mayors" and "governors" that we have in our state and city governments, who are more-interested in blowing the labor unions than demanding an honest hour of work for each and every single hour of pay.

With the employment situation being what it is, there is no shortage of people available to take those jobs, especially at the ridiculously inflated wages that these "servants of the public" have "negotiated" (with a gun shoved up the butt of the taxpayer.)

The only solution to this problem is to can 'em all and repudiate every bit of so-called "benefit" they think they're going to get out of this.  Reagan did it with PATCO and it needs to be done here - right now, today.

Happy F*$#ing New Year to you New York.