Thursday, October 30, 2008

Garbage collection cuts could be deep

Sun-Times:
Mayor Daley wants to shrink the size of 80 more garbage collection crews -- to one laborer on a truck instead of two.

But he might not stop there.

The Streets and Sanitation Department is conducting a field test this week with a $200,000 truck that requires no laborers. It has a mechanical arm that picks up carts and dumps the trash in the side of the truck.

If carts are not lined up properly, the driver has to stop the truck, get out and move the carts into place.

The success of the experiment is in the eye of the beholder.

Lou Phillips, business manager of Laborers Union Local 1001, argued that the North Side pilot has been a "disaster," with garbage spilling out into the street and crews sent in afterwards to clean up the mess.

The Laborers Union has filed an unfair labor practices complaint claiming the city violated an agreement to give the union advanced warning of "new technology" that effects union jobs.

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