blue flu

I'm looking for some human interest sides of the Blue Flu story.

"I see you haven't been stricken by the Blue Flu.

But it is a high-stress job, with notoriously high levels of absenteeism, or "blue flu."

We won't do a blue flu.

Every few years, New York City police, knowing they are barred from striking, catch the "blue flu."

The Justice Department says that "Blue Flu' is becoming endemic.

Similarly, several references are made in that novel to Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu.

A "sickout", or (especially by uniformed police officers) "blue flu", is a type of strike action in which the strikers call in sick.

City teachers, hospital employees and transit workers have struck in past years, and the police have staged a "blue flu" job action, calling in sick.

Officer Kent Milner - a rookie cop working overtime during the Blue Flu.

The rate of misdemeanor arrests has begun dropping as the police union, though denying "blue flu" resentment, accuses the mayor of ruining morale.

Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu (2007)

In Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu, although Monk is reinstated, Natalie continues to work for him.

Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu has Monk being reinstated and immediately promoted to acting homicide captain.

I wasn't eager to use it explaining why I'd ended up on the evening news babbling about Laura Corvallis's poorly named Blue Flu.

Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu is the third novel by writer Lee Goldberg to be based on the television series Monk.

To protest disciplinary action against two officers whose shots killed a fleeing drug suspect, more than 60 officers came down with the "blue flu," calling in sick on a weekend in September.

Monk initially thinks that it's a disease until Stottlemeyer explains that it's called the Blue Flu, where the police officers call in "sick" until they get a better contract.

The city has leveled charges of police corruption, something they would no doubt swiftly drop if the union found a quick cure for the blue flu, a rash of cops calling in sick.

'The Blue Flu' "Because of the blue flu they didn't have any extra officers," Mr. Papanikolaou said in a telephone interview.

Following Linda Wurzel to the abandoned warehouse reminds Natalie of the murder of Officer Kent Milner in Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu.

Though the layoffs would not take effect until July 1, two days after the fireworks, the mayor said he was concerned that police officers would stage a "blue flu" and call in sick the day of the show.

That night, Natalie is proud of Monk for having his badge back and keeping the SFPD running efficiently even with the number of officers "suffering" from the Blue Flu.

By coincidence, Mad Jack Wyatt said almost exactly the same thing when arresting Charlie Herrin (who had taken Monk hostage) in Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu.

But despite the widespread disillusionment with a Mayor who once championed police officers' causes, police commanders and many street officers said there was no indication of a ticket-writing slowdown, a "blue flu" or any other job action.