Women Sanitation Workers spend their shifts dealing with dirt, rodents and insects on the streets, and then come back to their garages and contend with dirt, rodents and insects in their locker rooms and showers, the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association told the City Council at a budget hearing last week.
Union President Harry Nespoli, backed up by three female workers, said facilities for women at many garages were antiquated, filthy or nonexistent. (They said the men’s facilities were bigger, but not necessarily better.) The Department of Sanitation has 155 women among its approximately 7,000 Sanitation Workers, Mr. Nespoli said. The first women started in 1986.
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