City union contests garbage collection
Source: By Steve Ferris, Herald-Standard (PA), 06/14/2008
The union representing Uniontown's sanitation workers has filed a grievance aiming to stop City Council from proceeding with its plans to turn over the garbage collection service to a private contractor, a union official said. The grievance was filed last month after council voted to award a three-year contract to Veolia Environmental Services of German Township, said Richard Caponi, director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 84.
....... Council never notified the union that hiring a private contractor was being considered and didn't notify the union that it was going to be replaced with a private contractor until after the grievance was filed, he said.