Posted on 05/01/2018 11:44:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
California highway maintenance workers express safety concerns dealing with homeless cleanup.
As California's homeless population skyrockets, the cost of cleaning up the state's numerous shanty towns is also hitting record highs -- and the price tag is likely to keep rising as workers tasked with tossing the vagrants' syringes, feces and buckets of urine fight for safer conditions.
The Golden State's homeless population of more than 130,000 people is now about 25 percent of the nationwide total, and cleaning up after the surging group is getting costly.
In an official grievance filed last week, the union representing California's maintenance workers accused the state of subjecting its members to hazardous conditions without proper training or equipment.
Maintenance crews often have to work in areas where the ground is muddy, slippery and ridden with debris that can include objects that are exceedingly sharp. Other items are simply dangerous to touch, such as potentially toxic or biologically unsafe materials.
"Feces and urine and feminine products and all kinds of things on the ground; needles, syringes, you know they use buckets, five-gallon buckets for toilets and it gets really disgusting," he said.
Besides the prospect of touching dangerous material, workers are also confronted with the open hostility from the "residents" of the encampments they are trying to clear.
"Sometime they have pit bulls in there. They'll, you know, let the dogs loose to chase the Caltrans workers out," Crouch said. "Sometimes they'll throw rocks at the Caltrans workers."
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Moonbeam Brown’s utopian welfare state. Ain’t it beautiful???
The Left leaves paradise a wasteland.
Moonbeam and the Obamanation of Desolation.
The place was like Paradise when we left in 1974. Seriously.
They do this at Skid Row every Monday and Wednesdays. Complete with hazmat suits.
Easy solution here. Just paint brown the sidewalks. Problem solved.
As a bonus, will look very nice with the white streets.
Far out, man!
yep!
Third World problems. California has these problems because Californians voted to have these problems.
California has become one of the shitholes that Trump was talking about.
Literally!
Don’t forget to look out for 1.5 litre plastic bottles with piss in them. In California I see them laying alongside the roads. I feel sorry for the poor landscaper who hits one the them with with his edger. It is really bad on Otay Mesa where the trucks from Tijuana enter San Diego.
Califonia’s getting what it voted for...
I see shantytowns frequently in the metropolitan areas of Sacramento, Stockton and Silicon Valley, usually alongside highways or under overpasses. I don’t envy the highway workers.
The good news is, the people who cause this Vote Democrat.
They are well on their way to a socialist utopian paradise................Thanks Democrats!....................
Help is coming all you homeless peeps! A Demo state
legislator introduced a bill which would prevent
restaurant workers from providing patrons with plastic
straws to patrons except upon request. The homeless
camp plastic problem will soon be a thing of the past!
I can’t understand why the EPA doesn’t go after San Francisco and other places for allowing raw sewage to flow into the rivers and oceans.
Well played sir!
I submit my FR exemption. Thank you very much.
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