PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Garbage could be piling up across the city of
Pittsburgh as sanitation workers refused to report for work on Wednesday
morning.
Some of them said they are not being given enough protective gear as the coronavirus continues to spread through the area.
The parking lot of the city’s sanitation building was packed with men and women who are usually out on trucks.
They have a list of demands for the city before they continue their work.
“I say if we don’t pick up your rubbish, what’re you going to do with it?” Asked Pittsburgh Environmental Services employee Tom Foley.
Emotions ran high as dozens of sanitation workers for the city refused to go to work on Wednesday.
“We are risking our lives, we could be contaminated as well,” said Sheldon White.
The parking lot of the city’s sanitation building was packed with men and women who are usually out on trucks.
They have a list of demands for the city before they continue their work.
“I say if we don’t pick up your rubbish, what’re you going to do with it?” Asked Pittsburgh Environmental Services employee Tom Foley.
Emotions ran high as dozens of sanitation workers for the city refused to go to work on Wednesday.
“We are risking our lives, we could be contaminated as well,” said Sheldon White.
Deemed essential services during the statewide shutdown, White said
the least the city could do is give the workers the protection they need
to do their jobs.
“We want better equipment, better protective gear, we have no masks,” he explained. “We want hazard pay.”
Their concerns over the spreading coronavirus continue to rise. Foley said one of the worker’s wife is quarantined and they were never notified.
“We want better equipment, better protective gear, we have no masks,” he explained. “We want hazard pay.”
Their concerns over the spreading coronavirus continue to rise. Foley said one of the worker’s wife is quarantined and they were never notified.
“There’s several people here who are diabetic, including myself, so if I catch this I could die,” Foley said. “There’s a bunch of people, how many of you are diabetic?”
As the workers wait for answers, they’re looking to Mayor Bill Peduto who said the trash will always be picked up.
KDKA is awaiting a statement from Mayor Peduto.
After nearly two hours, the workers were sent home with pay as their union representatives talked about what comes next.
Workers were told report back tomorrow morning at 5:30 a.m.
KDKA’s Nicole Ford is working to learn more.
This article states that this pandemic is "the worst global crisis since World War Two".
ReplyDeleteActually I don't believe that is accurate. The crisis of global warming and the crisis of the loss of the understanding of God and the eternal fight between good and evil is also equally a crisis. We are dealing with actually a triple crisis. As long as we deal with this crisis as just a single crisis, we will never win. The most important thing in all this is to keep our spirits up; we are human beings who love each other, damn it, and nobody can take that away from us.
In the second global crisis I mentioned, I should have more accurately said the devastation to our natural environments and ecosystems in general, not just global warming. We absolutely must learn to live more sustainably with the Earth as the indigenous people have been telling us. These last two global crises have been largely ignored by the global elites with questionable motivations, and the pandemic global crisis amped up beyond belief. However, I know whats up.
ReplyDeleteSounds very rational until you drag Christian mythology and feelings about good and evil in to it.
ReplyDeleteI did not mean to drag in the traditionally understood paradigm of Christian mythology but a more modern, amended version of the Christian paradigm that combines Christianity with the Muslim religion as shown in the book of Quran and also principles of sustainability such as practiced by Indigenous people to arrive at a more cohesive understanding of the higher powers s
ReplyDeleteMy point is I believe there is not just 1 global crisis but 3: (1) the pandemic, (2) environmental destruction, (3) lack of spiritual understanding and/or understanding of morality or good and evil by the current American civilization and culture. It was said socialism cannot arrive until mankind becomes more civilized.
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