The Brief
- The Republic Services strike in the Bay Area is now on Day 6.
- “Substitute drivers” are supposed to pick up garbage in cities like Fremont this week.
- Bay Area garbage workers are striking in solidarity with the original strike in Massachusetts over pay, healthcare.
FREMONT, Calif. – Solidarity strikes with Republic Services continued Monday on the sixth day of garbage strikes in the Bay Area, which is impacting residents of two dozen cities in Northern California.
Take the garbage bins on Gatewood Street in Fremont, for example, where bins were overflowing and causing a stink.
Fremont officials said Monday’s five commercial routes will get their garbage picked up, as well as three large industrial Dumpsters.…