Teamsters call for Republic and Bill Gates protection for key workers
WASHINGTON, September 17, 2020 / PRNewswire / – The International Brotherhood of Truckers released an informative video highlighting the millions of dollars Republic Services has spent on percentage buybacks funding Republic’s most sensitive executives, without providing mandatory security for decent appliances and salaries for its frontline staff amid the pandemic.
The union serves ads across the country with videos on social and virtual media channels to inform consumers whose municipalities use Republic about the business. The union accounts for approximately 20% of the company’s workforce and supports tens of thousands of other employees in the Republic. who fight for career situations and a voice at work.
Alongside the video, the union is also launching a written petition through Republic workers asking Gates to use his strength as the Republic’s main investor (with shares equivalent to nearly a third of the Republic’s shares) for the company to provide transparencies. adding security criteria in the guaranteed quarantine payment job.
Republic Services is the largest social sanitation company in the country at the time, with a profit in a quarter of $2. 45 billion. Instead of making an investment in the company and getting its workers with higher wages, new trucks and protective equipment, Republic Services With the consistent percentages offered to the public, Republic’s consistent percentage value increases with profits consistent with percentage holders consistent with consistent percentage, generating millions of consistent percentages for the company and its wealthy shareholders.
In the last quarter, Republic paid its shareholders $129 million in dividends, while Republic staff, who pleaded with the corporate to invest in their security in the face of the pandemic, continue to find themselves with low-quality sanitation and low wages.
“The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. It’s time for Republic Services to avoid investing in billionaires and start supporting its must-have staff and those most at risk in this crisis,” said Chuck Stiles, Teamsters Director. ‘Waste Division. Republic Services paid its shareholders 4 times more dividends in the last quarter than it spent on PPE for its 35,000 employees during the pandemic. As key players like Bill Gates continue to accumulate billions, sanitation staff is one of the top Harmful jobs in this country require a genuine control plan to protect them from COVID, adding a normal in-depth cleaning of amenities and appliances and a sufficiently good paid leave in poor health for all staff. “
Bill Gates, who owns nearly a third of Republic Services and is one of the richest people in the world with a net worth of $113. 7 billion, is expected to earn more than $176 million in Republic d”s dividends in the end. by 2020. pandemic, Gates has been at the forefront of verbal exchange to expand a COVID-19 vaccine and develop strategies on how the United States and the global network can more productively fight the fatal virus. Meanwhile, Republic Service staff are increasingly concerned about their health, as well as the protection and well-being of their friends and the circle of family they come into contact with.
“Remediation is the fifth most damaging task in the country, and the pandemic has only increased our threat: percentages of small spaces in garbage trucks and repair facilities, and dispatchers paint less than 3 feet away in offices,” said Demetrius Tart, a painter at Republic Services in Cumming Georgia. “During this time, Republic may not even tell us if someone we’ve painted with has a suspicious case so we can get tested. Workers like me have put forward security measures and filed to help. I even introduced myself personally to supply wall thermometers and protective appliances in my facility, but the control didn’t even respond. They’re too busy filling bill gates’ wallet, who makes millions from my paintings in Republic. “
The Teamsters, who make up more than 7,000 Republic Services employees nationwide, have been requesting PPE for sanitation staff since the start of the pandemic. In his recently posted virtual ad, Teamsters research shows that Bill Gates can simply supply each and every one of them. each front-line employee wearing N95 masks, face shields, protection adjustments, and two weeks of quarantine pay on poor health personnel for one year, all for about $ 154 million. This constitutes less than 0. 01% of Gates’ total wealth and less than 1% of the $ 11. 5 billion Gates earned in the few months after the pandemic started.
In addition to not providing sanitation personnel with adequate protective equipment, Republic Services rejected sickness benefits to personnel required to quarantine through the company. To guarantee two weeks of quarantine payment to the frontline employee this year, this would charge the company only about $52 million, or 8. 6% of the $600 million the Republic spends in percentage. repurchases in 2020.
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Truckers represents 1. 4 million working men and women in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Visit www. teamster. org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and “Like” us on Facebook at www. facebook. com/teamsters.
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