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Striking garbage workers in New Orleans, making $10.25 an hour, were fired en masse this week.

Now, they are being replaced by prison labor.

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“$10.25 to pick up trash - come on now. It’s contaminated now with coronavirus,” strike leader Gregory Woods told Payday Report.

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NoLa refuses to meet with the striking garbage workers.

“They aren’t trying to hear us,” says Woods. “They don’t care about us; they would let anything happen. If we were to get sick, they don’t care if we spread the disease"

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There have been over 191 strikes since March 1st in the US.

See more on our interactive strike tracking map here paydayreport.com/covid-19-strik…
GoFundMe for Striking Garbage Workers Fired in New Orleans and Replaced by Prison Labor gofundme.com/f/helping-the-…
Donate to help us keep covering this strike as well.

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"It's frustrating. They always say listen to black women" says 30-year old WalMart worker & Bernie supporter Just Asia.

"And then its like don't listen to those black women. Listen to the ones we want you to listen not the ones that actually gotta to work at 3 in the morning".
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NEW: The raid that detained 680 immigrants in Miss. comes after Koch Food Inc. paid $3.5 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit at the plant.

Workers at the plant are members of @UFCW & plan to fight back

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@UFCW Conditions were so bad at the plant that the EEOC forced the company to install a 24 hour hotline to report sexual and other forms of harassment

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