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Trash piled up in parts of New York City on Thursday as garbage collection slowed ahead of the deadline for city workers to get vaccinated.
Missed 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.
In a statement, the sanitation department said it is “aware that there are collection delays.”
City workers from other departments have protested the vaccine mandate, with hundreds of New York Fire Department employees rallying in front of the mayor’s residence, Gracie Mansion, on Thursday. The mandate applies to about 100,000 city employees and the New York Police Department.
As of Thursday, 67 percent of New York City sanitation workers had been vaccinated.
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Article URL : https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trash-piles-vaccination-deadline-looms-nyc-workers-n1282666