It’s a bad week when goats start taking jobs from people. A Columbus, Ohio, city employees’ union has filed a grievance claiming that the city used a herd of goats to do work that should have gone to union members. The city contracted with a local farm called Goats on the Go, sending more than 30 goats to graze at the Southerly Water Reclamation Plant to clear about 1.6 acres of poisonous brush and dense vegetation in areas difficult or dangerous for people and machinery to reach.
The city said the goats were chosen precisely because the terrain was too hazardous for employees. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees filed the grievance anyway, arguing the work should have been assigned to city workers. The incident has become an unlikely comedy act at City Hall, drawing headlines and giving late-night-ready punch lines to people across the state who have been closely following what one local paper dubbed the “goat-astrophe.”
Source: 10TV
