A three-alarm fire tore through temporary Department of Sanitation trailers at Pier 97 on the Hudson River last September. The trailers housed Sanitation workers' lockers, which means they've been changing in the "dank hallways of a garbage barge dumping facility" for the past half year. And now they are fed up.
The Daily News reports that dozens of workers showed up for work but refused to start their shifts yesterday. A union delegate said, "We're not asking for the Taj Mahal. Give me something so they can feel they have a place to go - not changing in the hallway of a dump."
And while the trailers are/were temporary (there are others which were not harmed by the fire) because the DOS is building a new facility, the Sanitation workers' union has complained that the DOS has been building for ten years, "For 10 years, they have had four or five different contractors."
