南加州逾1,900名环卫工人批准新合同：Teamsters Local 396与Republic Services达成协议
国际卡车司机工会（Teamsters）10月23日宣布，南加州逾1,900名环卫工人已投票批准与垃圾清运公司 Republic Services 签订的新合同。这批工人由 Teamsters Local 396 代表，该分会的服务范围覆盖加利福尼亚州洛杉矶县、橙县、河滨县、圣贝纳迪诺县与圣迭戈县等南加州多县的垃圾与回收清运工作。
Teamsters 总会长 Sean M. O'Brien 表示，一线会员团结一致与资方谈判，达成了一份为环卫行业树立标准的合同；他同时称，全国范围内还有数百名 Republic Services 工人在今年谈判新合同，工会在环卫行业的谈判不会就此停下。
Local 396 秘书兼财务主管 Victor Mineros 表示，会员应当为赢得一份有力的合同感到自豪，并称这次批准只是开始，该分会还要为环卫行业其余会员谈出同样有力的合同。据工会介绍，目前另有逾1,400名在其他公司工作的环卫工人仍在通过 Local 396 谈判新协议。
Republic Services 的司机 Jeremie Murray 说，工人是靠在各个工作地点、各个岗位上并肩站在一起，才从公司赢下了这份合同。
Republic Services 是北美第二大垃圾处理公司，去年营收166亿美元。Teamsters 成立于1903年，在美国、加拿大与波多黎各代表约130万名会员。
来源：GSM·美国
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Over 1,900 Southern California Sanitation Workers Ratify New Contract With Republic Services
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced on October 23 that more than 1,900 sanitation workers across Southern California have ratified a new contract with waste hauler Republic Services. The workers are represented by Teamsters Local 396, which provides trash and recycling services throughout Southern California, including Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties in California.
Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien said rank-and-file members stood together in bargaining and negotiated a contract that sets the standard for the waste industry. He added that hundreds more Republic Services Teamsters across the country are bargaining new contracts this year and that the union's push for strong contracts in the industry is not finished.
Victor Mineros, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 396 and Director of the Teamsters Solid Waste and Recycling Division, said members should be proud of winning a strong contract and called the victory a start, noting that the local still has work ahead to bargain strong contracts for the rest of its members in the sanitation industry. More than 1,400 waste workers at other companies represented by Local 396 continue to negotiate new agreements, according to the union.
Jeremie Murray, a driver at Republic Services, said the workers won the contract by standing together across all worksites and classifications.
Republic Services is the second-largest waste company in North America and reported $16.6 billion in revenue last year. Founded in 1903, the Teamsters represent 1.3 million people in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.
Source: GSM, United States
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
图片来源：图：Republic Services 的垃圾清运车（资料图）。Epolk 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: A Republic Services waste collection truck (file photo). Photo by Epolk, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
