PEABODY, MASS. (WHDH) - Trash and recycling in many communities has piled up as the Republic Services sanitation strike entered a second week with no deal.
Union workers said Republic Services refuses to give them fair wages, stronger benefits, paid time off, and better working conditions, but Republic said it does offer those things.
Congressman Seth Moulton visited the strike site in Peabody Tuesday, staying he was standing with “working people, with people who are essential to our communities and who are too often forgotten.”
“Right now they’re just not getting a fair deal,” Moulton said. “This company has a reputation of giving people a raw deal across the country, but it’s hitting home right here in Massachusetts today.”
The strike is impacting more than 400,000 people across more than a dozen communities.
Some towns have addressed plans to address the problem.
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