A Baltimore City councilman is pushing for everyone who works on a garbage truck to get an immediate raise. Councilman Isaac Schleifer has asked the HR department and Department of Public Works to find a way to make it happen. “We have to treat them right,” Schleifer says. He wants to see immediate $4/hour pay raises for city sanitation workers.

He says if the city doesn’t act now, the issues they’ve had with trash delays and recycling, which pickup has been stopped until November, will only get worse. “A lot of these employees have two jobs and that’s just unacceptable for someone who’s spending 10 hours a day on the back of the garbage truck,” he says.

Right now temporary workers, who Schleifer says can work for the city anywhere from six months to a year, start at $11 an hour. Full time employees are at $16/hour. “There needs to be a sense of urgency because the fact that we are going from two different collections a week to now we’re only doing one collection, and even that has been a struggle, we have to do something dramatic.”

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Author: Shelley Orman, Fox45 News
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