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Build Community Support for Locked Out Garbage Workers
Pierce County Jobs with Justice invites us to survey Milton residents and build community support for locked out garbage workers. Download survey
Saturday, December 7, 10am to Noon . . . Meet in the parking lot at Dave’s Restaurant in Milton (1502 11th Avenue, Milton) - We will be trained and dispatched to survey locations.
Locked out garbage haulers and members of Teamsters Local 313 are in a fight to protect the health and safety of our communities against Waste Connections, a corporate invader. As members of the community, we can help the locked out garbage workers by distributing and collecting the Garbage Service Customer Survey. Our next survey day will be in Milton where we have heard many garbage service complaints and residents are asking for their voice to be heard.
Waste Connections is a California corporation with a practice of buying established trash collection companies and then doing their best to cutback on drivers, undercut living wages and benefits, and destroy workers’ unions. In the past few years, Waste Connections has taken over Murrey’s, DM Disposal, and American. In April, Waste Connections changed drivers’ routes and terminated seven driver positions. Drivers were forced to work 12 – 15 hour days to cover the extra routes prompting protracted union contract negotiations. Waste Connections then locked out all union garabage drivers and began replacing them.
This company is not acting like they are accountable to our communities or care about the safety of our children. We need to make them accountable or get rid of them. Pressed by shortstaffing and excessive overtime, garbage truck drivers are fighting back for safe driving conditions in our neighborhoods and around our children playing in the street. They are also fighting for timely and consistent pick up of rotting garbage before it creates a health hazard. For these reasons, the garbage haulers have taken a heroic stand against Waste Connections on their picket lines.
Waste Connections services these areas of Pierce County: Bonney Lake, Buckley, Carbonado, Edgewood, Fife, Gig Harbor, Milton, Orting, Puyallup, Sumner, Pierce County unincorporated.
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