New Orleans trash collectors don't work for the city; they work for a temp agency called People Ready, which pays them $10.25/h and denies them hazard pay and sick leave. On Wednesday, they went on strike.
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The city immediately hired a replacement work force: prisoners from Livingston Parish, hired out through Metro Services Group, who pitch themselves as "helping persons who had been incarcerated return to society in a meaningful and productive way."
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The prisoners earn 13% of the wage that the striking People Ready workers made. They do not receive PPE.
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"They are really trying to use those dudes to do our job, and they paying them way less than they were paying us....trying to show the world that people will still do our job without giving us the proper protective equipment." -Strike leader Gregory Woods
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