Almost 4,000 workers who pick up trash and keep the streets clean from Los Angeles to San Diego are working without a contract. The agreement between Teamsters Local 396 and the sanitation companies expired Wednesday at midnight, setting the stage for a possible strike. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe corporate greed is loud in these negotiations,\u201d Victor Mineros, Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 396, tells KFI. He says they\u2019re at the table, ready for a deal, but \u201cwe\u2019re also ready to go on strike. There has been preparations for the members to take that action if need be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mineros says they\u2019re fighting for better health care and safer working conditions. \u201cThis job has more death and injury than firefighters and cops put together, so safety is a very huge important issue that is at the table now.\u201d He also says that, like many workers these days, they want guarantees against AI taking their jobs. \u201cThere\u2019s technology now, driverless vehicles\u2026these vehicles [are] being put on the street and putting communities at harm,\u201d Mineros claims, \u201cinstead of their local trash guy who\u2019s been part of their local community for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Negotiations are ongoing, and there\u2019s no timetable for when a strike might happen or how long it could last. Republic Services, one of the companies involved in the negotiations, said in a statement that talks started August 14th, and while progress has been made towards a new agreement, there\u2019s more work to do. \u201cWe will continue to negotiate in good faith with Local 396 to reach agreements that benefit our employees and customers, and the long-term success of our company,\u201d the company wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 4,000 workers who pick up trash and keep the streets clean from Los Angeles to San Diego…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10582,48,52,51,47,50,49,86,4796,2328,2718],"class_list":["post-482402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-garbage","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-strike","tag-trash","tag-union","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}