[ April 25, 2024 ]
It begins. During a time of crisis, you see the best and the worst in people. Here is an example of the worst. These folks are lucky to still be working. I would fire them all.
BREAKING:
Pittsburgh garbage collectors refusing to pick up, claiming they are not being protected and deserve hazard pay @wpxi pic.twitter.com/oUNZGL881F— Liz Kilmer (@LizKilmerWPXI) March 25, 2020
Pittsburgh Sanitation Workers Refusing To Work
Story continues below advertisementThe workers claim the city isn’t providing protections that would safeguard them against the coronavirus.
By Eric Heyl, Patch Staff, March 25, 2020:
PITTSBURGH, PA – Pittsburgh sanitation workers are refusing to work until they are given adequate protections against the coronavirus.
Workers on Wednesday morning assembled outside the city Bureau of Environmental Services office in the Strip District. KDKA-TV reported they were sent home for the day with pay, and now city and union officials will meet to try to resolve the dispute.
It’s unclear how the city refuse collection schedule will be impacted by the walkout.
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30 Comments
4 years ago
Democrats and their unions doing their worst.
4 years ago
Jailhouse Punk Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, will collapse like a Mitt Romney presidential bid …… He NEEDS the Black (a.k.a. African American) VOTE!! Best way to ensure a nice dangerous ghetto for ALL peoples to live !!
4 years ago
SO … let the professional sports team PAY … they are wealthy and generous.
I am sure the players will all share their WEALTH with the garbage men …
STEELERS … PIRATES …
4 years ago
There are a lot of unemployed people out there right now who would love those jobs. They need to go back to work
tomorrow, or replace them all.
4 years ago
Reply to
Laura Mullen
Expecting your employer to provide PPE gear is NOT unreasonable…
IT is a requirement of OSHA…
4 years ago
Reply to
Laura Mullen
Several politicians at City, county, state, and federal levels have threatened to jail people who do what you correctly suggest.
4 years ago
Nothing like a labor union trying to manipulate its people by taking advantage of this situation. Everyone involved should be fired and the union dissolved.
4 years ago
Take the Reagan approach.
FIRE THEM and HIRE OTHERS to do the job.
Reagan did that to the striking air traffic controllers.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I was hired by TVA to join the nuclear power operator training program in 1981. It was made clear that our mandatory membership in the IBEW had a no strike clause, citing Reagan’s actions. During the time I was employed, they screwed us royally.
One of many examples: only operators were allowed to open or close valves, and we were required to document any manual valve movements.
Coming out of an outage, we experienced a minor loss of coolant accident. Some pipefitters had bypassed an emergency core cooling system valve during testing. They freely admitted operating the valves involved without operator involvement, which was a procedural violation. The two operators who did the startup valve checklist couldn’t possibly have seen the problem without a scaffold being built, and that wasn’t ever done. They were demoted and disciplined. The union did nothing. The union president and vice president were totally bought off.
4 years ago
I stand with these workers… regarding PPE…
Handling CV19 infected trash is a massive Hazard…
4 years ago
Reply to
sumsrent
Contrary to Pam and everyone else here posting I agree with you. I thought this would have happened already! If this corona virus is so toxic that it calls for everyone to hide at home, then what makes you think it isn’t most lethal to those who dispose of trash and waste! Everybody haphazardly throws everything in the trash without thinking that isn’t the end of it. Put yourself in their position for a second and realize that their job just got dangerous. Others are spouting off as elitists’ with their comments. As they said during the Vietnam war, if you think this war is so important, you go stand on the front line. Same here, if you want to handle hazardous waste, go do it. Does anybody really understand this virus? If it got terrible these sanitation workers will have to be hauling out the dead bodies next. Is anybody clearly telling them how to protect themselves? Doesn’t sound like it for that is what they asked. Clear guidance on procedures. Not really asking that much considering.
4 years ago
Reply to
Bradley Lexvold
I most certainly agree…
We can only guess at what jobs are hazardous in relation to CV19… and Trumpo should have already put together a list of those jobs…
And ALL employers should be expected to provide PPE for the workers…
But it’s hard when the massive lying idiot Trumpo and his lousy task force is Americans they don’t need masks… <<< Such false information... such lies...
4 years ago
Here is another example of how the massive lying idiot Trumpo has failed America in handling CV19…
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to calculate how many jobs are associated with cross contamination…
PPE is a requirement of OSHA…
When will OSHA step up and hold the American Government accountable for their failures???
4 years ago
Reply to
sumsrent
I really don’t think you can put all of this at Trumps feet. At 1st there were a lot of unknowns and out right lying by some as to what it is and spreads and that continues. If you’re looking for accountability, well everyone involved has skewed thinking. Honesty has taken a back seat to political posturing.
4 years ago
Reply to
Bradley Lexvold
A whole bunch can be laid at the idiot Trumpo’s feet…
Beginning with not banning ALL incoming flights back in early February…
If anything… the American government had been letting CV19 spread intentionally… for the purpose of Flattening the Curve. And now it has gotten out of hand…
4 years ago
Reply to
sumsrent
That is wishing bad things to happen to others for equality. I WILL NOT DO THAT!
4 years ago
People whine and cry all the time about how the Police, Military and Fire-Fighters put their lives at risk everyday…
But it appears as if Trash Collectors are peons not worthy of the risks they take…
Society is soooooo messed up with their backwards thinking…
4 years ago
Yeah… you’re an idiot…
4 years ago
Reply to
sumsrent
Actually… I’m a conservative… Saved by the Grace of Christ Jesus…
Thus… not a leftist demon…
However; You are a racist. <<< period.
Which exposes your ignorance… as a lousy wannabe Whitey…
4 years ago
Stand up for what’s RIGHT people…
Even if it means pointing out Trump’s failures on handling CV19…
4 years ago
$32,749 a year
Salary Recap
The average pay for a Garbage Man is $32,749 a year and $16 an hour in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The average salary range for a Garbage Man is between $25,120 and $39,013.
4 years ago
Reply to
Anthony Silvio
In NYC they can earn six figures for picking up trash. They call them Sanitation Engineers.
New York City Department of Sanitation Stationary Engineer Salaries in New York City, NY Area
Nov 23, 2019
Stationary Engineer salaries at New York City Department of Sanitation can range from $123,730-$133,486. This estimate is based upon 1 New York City Department of Sanitation Stationary Engineer salary report(s) provided by employees or estimated based upon statistical methods. See all Stationary Engineer salaries to learn how this stacks up in the market.
4 years ago
Reply to
Anthony Silvio
He should know, he and his son are long time participants in extreme corruption.
4 years ago
Not those with whom I have worked for many years. With only one exception, they were smart, hard working human beings.
4 years ago
Curious why OSHA wasn’t involved before the China Flu.
Pittsburgh Steelers is not the Pittsburgh stealers……
4 years ago
Can’t really fault them.They are just following the Commiecrat mantra, “Don’t Let a crisis go to WASTE.”
4 years ago
Democrat union workers never letting as crisis go to waste.
4 years ago
