Rows of black, green and blue trash bins, some overflowing with rubbish, are lining streets in some Bay Area cities as a workers strike drags into its second week. And residents say it’s starting to become a problem.
“It’s affecting us. It’s affecting everybody,” Alex Hernandez, a Fremont resident, told SFGATE. “We’re collecting trash in the backyard.”
The work stoppage began on July 1 when employees of Republic Services in several Massachusetts cities walked off the job asking for a “fair contract” with better benefits and higher wages. Since then, more than 2,000 employees nationwide have joined the strike in a solidarity effort, causing “major disruptions to waste collections for millions of Americans nationwide,” the Teamsters union representing the strikers said in a news release…