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The deaths of Cole and Walker proved to be the catalyst for the Memphis sanitation strike. On February 11, ten days after their deaths, union Local 1733 held a strike meeting where over 400 workers complained that the city refused to provide decent wages and working conditions. The workers wanted immediate action but the city refused. [7]
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The accident was initially blamed on a shovel falling from the truck onto some wires and causing a short circuit. [6] Eleven days later, sanitation workers went on a strike [7] that would last for more than two months and would bring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. to the city on April 4.
A garbage truck worker was hit and killed after the very truck he was riding on hit him, according to a Tallahassee Police Department social media post.. The truck was stopped collecting trash in ...
A terrifying video captured the moment a state highway worker narrowly missed being hit by a box truck that violently plowed into two vehicles on a New York roadside.
Uber driver Derek Gooderham was zipping along on Interstate 83 when a wave of wood planks tumbled from the lumber truck, sliding down a hill and sweeping his car off the road.
Barney Gorman works hard as a garbageman in Philadelphia, but his career indirectly embarrasses his family. Barney's frustration is made worse by being a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles, who are mired in a slump. Due to a sticky lever on his garbage truck, Barney has (without realizing it) developed a very strong kick. One day at the city dump ...
As the truck was descending into the shoulder of the freeway, it struck two of the workers, both San Bernardino County residents, initially killing one — a 54-year-old man who sustained fatal ...