Posted on 06/07/2022 3:12:31 PM PDT by Salman
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A garbage company has stopped picking up yard waste in at least seven metropolitan cities due a lack of drivers.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Thursday that Waste Management confirmed Thursday that it had suspended yard waste service in Robbinsdale, Stillwater, Columbia Heights, Little Canada, St. Anthony, St. Paul and Vadnais Heights due to a staffing shortage.
Company spokeswoman Julie Ketchum said high demand for people with commercial driver’s licenses has created the shortage. She said the yard waste pickup suspensions could last weeks and could expand to other cities going forward.
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‘This is Yard waste, tree’s limbs grass clippings. Not regular trash.’
worth mentioning again
No, the requirements were always there but the company may not have been able to meet them anymore. Forced to hire a certain percent of folks more intent to join a choom gang.
I also suspect a lot of larger carriers are forced to hire people after those who wouldn't take the Jim Jones Jab quit, making it difficult for a local sanitation shop to find enough drivers.
Oh, they'll care alright. So many people out there that have zero skills in self-sufficiency, let along just plain common sense.
stealing
Our honest hard earned $/taxes pays them!! 😡How the hell they live off it, is beyond me
I’ve always wondered how people just don’t work. I mean they all have fancy phones and several apps and multitudes of TV subscriptions. Tattoos and everything else. Am I missing something or am I being played as a sucker for working the last 40 years.
Sucker. We are. Not sure what we can do about it. All this resentment slowly killing me
Methane producing “Food Waste” mandatory collection/recycling is just arriving in California...”Global Warming” doncha know!
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/organics/slcp/
https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov/Docs/Web/118371
City adjacent to FR HQ (get well soon Jim!!) has a brief on the new rules:
https://cityofclovis.com/public-utilities/recycling-and-refuse/senate-bill-1383-sb-1383/
Coming soon to a state near you! ;-)
Truck drivers are in demand now. They had drivers last week, they don't have them today. Sounds more like they were losing drivers who left and went to better paying gigs and have problems attracting new ones for what they want to pay. That's to the employees benefit and one of the side effects of a tight job market.
Another article said that Poland is encouraging people to gather firewood due to energy prices.
A masonry stove or rocket mass heater works quite well with twigs and trimmings instead of regular firewood.
When winter comes, will people be wishing they’d held on to that brush and yard waste?
Time will tell.
Cities should declare an emergency and force company management to fulfill the contract.
Stop the gravy train.
Yeah why should the truck drivers make more money anyway? A buck seventy an hour was good enough minimum wage for my dad it should be good enough for these guys. Right?
“I wonder if younger folks are having trouble with passing the drug screening.”
All ages have trouble out here in California passing drug screening.
One of our 50 something relatives was hired as a fork lift driver, when he relocated from Portland to here. A neighbor and a friend of this relative told him to keep up his skills with forklifts and driving semi’s. He spent 5 years doing that and got into management for 10+ years, dealing with HR and 24/7 political B$.
His doctor, also a long time friend told him to get out of management. So, he basically created a new position of driving the semi’s to the various plants with his own forklift to load or unload the semi’s.
He feels better health wise and mentally, has a lot of paid overtime and zero management responsibilities over other people. A good friend with the same company does the same work. Neither one is a boss nor really has a boss.
Of course both are very valuable to their company and are left along. They get job offers all the time with the driver shortages.
Their boss is a family member of the owners, and he has told them not to leave for higher pay before letting him have a chance to beat the offer.
Does Waste Management have a vaccine requirement?
“Around here they don’t pick up grass clippings. Either compost them or leave them on the lawn.”
Here in N. California during the rainy season brush, trees and similar stuff can grow inches in a night.
We have an acre of land and even in the non raining season, our yard guy can fill 2 big brown compostable each week. So during that time we get the use of the 2 containers for free. There is a high demand for compostables. During the rainy/growing season we have 3 containers for free.
We have 2 big blue containers for recyclables. When I was clearing out decades of home office paper, I got 4 for free and didn’t need a big expensive haulaway container.
The rest of the garbage, the non recyclables and the non compostables cost us $35 a month for a container about 2X3X2’.
True, but essentially the government is acting as a competitor against the entire labor market now, while the government does not have to compete for profits in the rest of the market. So there are complications in that formula that don’t exist if you are just losing workers because a private competitor is offering a better wage.
Also, the government is not just offering to pay people to do a similar job, they are paying people to do no job at all. If I’m working my behind off for a $60k a year salary, and someone offers me $40k a year to do nothing, that’s a competitive offer, even thought it’s a far lower salary. So you have to take that factor into consideration as well.
Very good question.
Where I live (central FL) we’d be buried in yard waste if it wasn’t removed.
I have palm trees and giant live oaks that are quite prolific in producing leaves, debris, small branches etc.
My lakefront residential lot 90’ x 165’ with leaves alone will fill 60-75 contractor 40 gallon bags per season. We burn the branches and palm fronds in the neighbors fire pit.
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