If it's true that NYC sanitation workers deliberately held up snow removal as a protest over budget cuts, they should all be fired, like Reagan did with the Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) who went on strike, snarling up the nations air transportation system. Given the way public employees' exorbitant pay and benefits have put municipalities and states on the verge of bankruptcy, I think such unions should be outlawed. They've become the masters and the taxpaying public the servants.