A blast of snow halted trash collection across Puget Sound, creating a multiweek backlog of garbage. Now, as companies try to catch up, sanitation workers are walking off the job.
You can see garbage blocking sidewalks and street corners, piled high and bursting out of trash cans.
Her street looks like many others in West Seattle, with sidewalks stacked high with recycling bins and trash bags. The increase in garbage exacerbated the backlog, often requiring crews to conduct waste removal by hand, in order to load excess bags that could not fit in the can. SPU said that any customers whose waste wasn’t collected on their collection day this week are asked toBut any residents serviced by Republic Services, like Doxsee in Sammamish and Combs in Kent, may be waiting a while longer.extended their picket lineOver 300 western Washington-based Teamsters Local 542 union members, who work at those four facilities, are now refusing to cross the picket line — in support of the more than 250 workers in San Diego who went on strike Dec. 17, 2021.
“Give it a couple of days, they’re going to notice, ‘Why isn’t my trash getting picked up again?’ And they’re going to realize, ‘Oh, the locals from San Diego are out here.’ They’re going to notice our problem and they’re going to want something to get fixed right away,” Gonzales explained. “Republic is refusing to listen to its employees’ concerns and make changes,” Vasquez continued. “Our members felt they had no choice but to take their strike line elsewhere to communicate to the company that it needs to listen to its front line workers, who do the work that earns them billions.”
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