Strike Stalls Garbage Pick Up in Half Moon Bay

Teamsters picketed along Highway 92 near the entrance to the Ox Mountain Sanitary Landfill Thursday morning. They are at odds with Republic/Allied Waste over pension benefits in the Midwest, reported the Half Moon Bay Review.

As a result, about 1,000 residential customers in Half Moon Bay and city businesses will not receive service from Allied Waste Thursday or Friday.

Evan Boyd, division manager for Allied/Republic Services, which services Half Moon Bay, told the Review that residential customers should put out their garbage as normal next week. They will not be charged for going over their normal limits. Customers with proof of residence can also bring garbage to the landfill free of charge. The same is true for commercial customers.

Service on the Midcoast, however, will continue as normal.

According to the Review, Recology of the Coast, the service provider for customers north of Half Moon Bay, was stockpiling garbage — 55 tons so far — so that union drivers didn’t have to cross picket lines at the Ox Mountain Landfill.

Read the full report in the Half Moon Bay Review here.

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