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Immigrant Recycling Workers Win Strike, Union Drive in East Bay

Immigrant Recycling Workers Win Strike, Union Drive in East Bay

by admin | Oct 31, 2014 | In the News

SAN LEANDRO, CA—Within days of each other last week, two groups of Northern California recycling workers declared they’d had enough of what they see as regimes of indignity and discrimination. One group voted to unionize, and another, already union members,...
Waste Management recycling workers end strike after winning living wages & affordable health benefits

Waste Management recycling workers end strike after winning living wages & affordable health benefits

by admin | Oct 31, 2014 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs

OAKLAND, CA – A week-long strike by 130 low-wage recycling workers at Waste Management facilities in Oakland and San Leandro ended Thursday afternoon, October 30, after workers secured a contract guaranteeing living wages and affordable family health insurance....

Recyclers Battle Waste Management…and the Teamsters Union

by admin | Oct 29, 2014 | In the News

by DARWIN BOND-GRAHAM It’s 4 AM. The air is cold and damp on 98th Avenue in deep East Oakland, down along the San Francisco Bay’s industrial waterfront. This is a hard geography of concrete and dust and pot-hole riddled roads latticed by train tracks. Much of the...
Waste Management recycling workers end strike after winning living wages & affordable health benefits

Strike by East Bay recycling workers at Waste Management continues this week

by admin | Oct 27, 2014 | Fighting for Good Jobs

OAKLAND, CA – A strike that began last Friday by 130 low-wage recycling workers at Waste Management’s East Bay facilities in Oakland and San Leandro is continuing this week with picketers marching as early as 3 a.m. this morning in front of the company’s...

Waste Management recycling workers strike East Bay facilities over disrespectful treatment

by admin | Oct 23, 2014 | Uncategorized

A strike by 130 recycling workers will hit Waste Management’s East Bay facilities in Oakland and San Leandro beginning at 4am on Friday morning, October 24.  Workers and community supporters will march in picket lines at the company’s headquarters at 172 98th Avenue...
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