Maryland Trash Workers Strike Over ‘Immigration Enforcement Threats’

By NBC Washington

Montgomery County sanitation workers will continue talks with their employer Tuesday after they walked off the job, claiming Latino employees were unfairly singled out after asking for a wage increase and affordable healthcare.

The employees of Potomac Disposal claimed they faced “inappropriate and intimidating immigration enforcement threats,” a union rep told News4.

They say that last week, they asked for a wage increase and affordable healthcare. When the owner of the company refused, the workers staged a walkout Thursday.

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