CLEVELAND — City services like trash pickup and snow removal may come to a halt if city employees don’t get the equal pay they’re demanding.
Unions representing laborers and drivers protested outside city hall this morning.
They’ve been in contract negotiations for about five months now.
Local 860 representative, Bobby Mendel, says their workers were deemed essential and highly critical during the pandemic and want wages equal to public safety.
"We're not getting treated equally like some of the other unions are instead the city wants to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to a private law firm for negotiations to basically combat its own workers,” said Mendel.
Mendel says there is a possibility services by waste collectors, road repair crews and snow removal could stop.
The next negotiation meeting is set for Nov. 8.
The city says it does not comment on pending litigation.
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