Dive summary:
- After workers complained about sanitary conditions, a health clinic set up to provide employee health screenings in a garbage truck garage in Chicago was shut down.
- A spokeswoman for the Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation said that while the equipment and testing tables were sterilized, in response to the feedback from employees they are shutting down the current location and finding alternative screening stations including libraries and park district facilities.
- “The floors and walls were all covered in dirt,” said Streets and Sanitation employee Marty Zamora who denied blood testing at the clinic, “maggots and rats tend to show up at night.”
From the article:
City officials have decided to shut down a temporary clinic that had been set up in a garbage truck garage to provide wellness screenings for Streets and Sanitation Department workers.
WBBM Newsradio’s Steve Miller first reported that workers were complaining about unsanitary conditions at the clinic that had been set up inside the garage at Ferdinand Street and Tripp Avenue. ...
