HENDERSON, Ky (WEHT) – Republic Services says trash pickup is back on schedule after out-of-town picketers have left Evansville.
Teamsters’ officials state those picketers were standing outside the Republic Services office on Fares Avenue and at the landfill on N. Saint Joseph Avenue. They were protesting a labor dispute in Georgia, not in Evansville.
We’re told there was a delay because local employees chose not to cross the picket line. They say it had nothing to do with the Evansville Teamsters Local 215, which approved a new three-year contract with Republic back in July…