Waste Management workers in the Los Angeles County went on strike on Friday to demand higher pay.
The strike will affect about 225,000 residential and 29,000 commercial accounts in Los Angeles County, including Inglewood, Carson, Rolling Hills, Rancho Palos Verdes, Manhattan Beach, South Gate, Long Beach, Huntington Park and portions of the San Fernando Valley, according to television station ABC7.
The strike began around 3 a.m. when union representatives for the sanitation workers turned down the latest contract offer made by Waste Management, according to the report.
Waste Management said it offered a fair deal.
"We weren't surprised but we are really, really disappointed ... we reached a tentative agreement with the union leadership earlier this week," Kit Cole of Waste Management told ABC7. "That tentative agreement wasn't ratified by the membership, so now we have this strike."
Union representatives said wages, health care and vacation were all issues, ABC7 reported.
Workers rejected all three offers that were made since contract negotiations began in August, ABC7 reported.
Waste Management brought in sanitation workers this morning from other areas in an attempt to continue operations, ABC7 reported.
Source:Xinhua
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