Tag: sanitation workers

Terminated NYC Sanitation Worker Speaks Out After Losing Job Over Vaccine Mandate

February 18, 2022
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NEW YORK—Tom Libretti, a sanitation worker, loves his job at the City of New York’s Sanitation Department, riding on the back of a garbage truck and tossing refuse from garbage cans into its back. Or at least he did. Libretti is one of the 1,430 employees of the City of New York who refused to…

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Orange County Sanitation Workers Reach Tentative Deal to End Strike

December 16, 2021
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—After nearly a week of being on strike, some of the 400 workers at Republic Services began returning to work Dec. 16 after reaching a tentative agreement to resume waste collection services. The agreement is now being finalized for Republic Services Huntington Beach and Anaheim workers, Adan Alverez, spokesperson for Teamsters Local 396,…

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