1-Day Strike Delays Trash Pickups
Residential trash collection resumed Tuesday in four South Bay cities after 160 trash haulers for Gardena-based Western Waste Industries walked off the job Monday in a one-day wildcat strike.
Trash pickups are running a day late this week in Carson, Gardena, Inglewood and Manhattan Beach. The normal collection schedule will resume on Monday.
Western Waste trash collectors said they did not report for work Monday because a new contract was adopted without their approval.
Company spokesman Richard Haft said representatives from the Teamsters Union had accepted a contract. He blamed the strike, which he said did not have union authorization, on poor communication between the union and its members.
Officials at Teamsters Local 396 declined to comment.
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