Not exact matches
Fast - food
workers striking across the mid-south today were joined by
workers from the 1968
sanitation strike, connecting the important historic action 50 years ago to today's walk
out.
Please don't insult the
sanitation workers by comparing them to the charlatans who come
out of the Ivy League semataries.
Sanitation workers said they felt the mayor had looked
out for them and weren't worried about some of the other criticisms of de Blasio.
In November, the mayor made a show of rolling
out his labor support when he first declared for reelection, touting early endorsements from SEIU 32BJ, the Uniformed
Sanitation Workers Union, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
The
sanitation workers worked «long, long hours and multiple shifts» and fought hard to get the city running again, he said, adding that he went
out there and said that «some people got ta do better» but that the
sanitation workers prevailed.
Thus, «these huge debts need to be settled before effective delivery of services can be carried
out» because these debts mean that the
sanitation service providers argue, among other things, that «they needed fuel, they needed tires, they need to pay their
workers so they were not able to collect the waste regularly the way we desire.»
Clinton pointed
out that the legislation was signed on the same day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, during a period when he was fighting for better wages and working conditions for
sanitation workers.
A group of
sanitation workers in the Çankaya district of Ankara, Turkey began collecting books that were set
out in the trash.
And when you multiply that by the hundreds of millions of people currently living in this unsustainable manner, it all adds up to a major issue - and one that is often only seen if
sanitation and waste
workers go on strike, leaving the trash on the curb instead of taking it
out of sight and
out of mind.