Waste Management goes on strike
Waste Management, with a service area including White Center, has just gone on strike. Here’s a report from our regional-news partners at the Seattle Times; more to come.
Tags: garbage strike, Waste Management
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April 21st, 2010 at 9:53 pm
This strike is avoidable, and seems an awful lot like what I remember from my history lessons. American culture has a fundamental reflex against carpet bagger robber barons moving into towns and short-changing the labor force.
If you’re angry too, call Duane Woods (WM West Division VP) at (480) 419-6140. If you don’t get him, leave him a message telling him how we don’t want him lowering our local standard of living.
April 22nd, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Darn right I’m angry too. I’m angry at people like ‘trashed’ who say that “…carpet bagger robber barons moving into towns and short-changing the labor force” then conveniently forget to say that “short changed” = $109,000 a year. These strikers should cross the picket line immediately or be replaced forever. This strike is offensive to everyone who is out of work or just happy to have a job that pays one-quarter of what the Waste Management teamsters are crying about. I’ll be sure to put something extra smelly in my garbage cans next week, assuming you cry babies ever get back to work.