GARBAGE WORKERS STRIKE SPREADS TO ATLANTA & SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
On July 9, Payday Report described a strike of garbage workers employed by the private contractor, Republic Services,that had spread to Illinois, Georgia, Washington State, and Massachusetts.
Now, the strike has spread to Atlanta as well as to Southern California in Orange County and the suburbs of San Diego.
“Republic abuses and underpays workers across the country,” Sean M. O’Brien, Teamsters president, said in a statement Wednesday. “We will flood the streets and shut down garbage collection in state after state. Workers are uniting nationwide, and we will get the wages and benefits we’ve earned, come hell or high water.”
