Dive summary:
- More than 400 Republic Services employees in Anaheim, Cali. joined in a strike to show solidarity with the striking workers at the Carbon Limestone landfill in Ohio.
- Workers from all areas of the waste chain joined in; from transfer stations, commercial and residential garbage truck drivers and those in material recovery facilities.
- Earlier in this month, other groups from California as well as the whole U.S. have joined in support of Ohio workers.
From the article:
Members of Local 377 have been on strike since March 27 at the landfill near Youngstown, the union said. The transfer station employees are members of Local 952 in Orange, Calif., and the drivers and MRF employees are members of Local 396 in Covina, Calif.
The California work stoppage is one of a series of Republic Services locations in different parts of the country to support the Ohio workers, the Teamsters said. ...
