Informational Picket Will Highlight Republic's Wage Discrimination and Worker Abuses

(AUSTELL, Ga.) - On Wed., March 4 at 12 p.m., sanitation workers who work for Republic Services, Inc. [NYSE: RSG] will hold an informational picket to educate the public on the company's human rights violations. Workers at Republic allege that Republic has broken federal laws that protect workers' rights, by unilaterally changing pay and working conditions without negotiating with their union.

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In addition, black employees in Atlanta filed U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges, alleging that Republic offers overtime to white employees but not to black employees.

Republic Services is America's second-largest solid waste and recycling company. Its primary shareholder is Microsoft co-founder and former chairman Bill Gates, who owns 30 percent of the company's shares- about $4 billion worth.

WHO:
Solid waste workers
Representatives of Teamsters Local 728

WHEN:
Wed., March 4, 2015
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

WHERE:
Republic Services, Inc.
7120 Delta Circle
Austell, GA 30168

VISUALS:
Workers holding signs, chanting.

Contact: Eric Robertson, (404) 319-6619
erobertson@teamsterslocal728.org

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/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- March 4, 2015/

SOURCE Teamsters Local Union 728