1/Former Sanitation Salvage workers are protesting this morning. Many say they worked years off-the-books for shifts as long as 21 hours, paid $80/night. Their co-worker Mouctar Diallo died on the job in Nov 2017. His death was covered up. The company said he was a homeless man 2/Their protest in the bitter cold winds on MLK day invokes those who've come before them. On Feb 1, 1968 Memphis sanitation workers Echol Cole & Robert Walker were crushed to death by a garbage truck. Memphis workers went on strike in protest of dangerous conditions & low pay