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Mayor Peduto Responds After Sanitation Workers Walk Off The Job

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PITTSBURGH (Newsradio 1020 KDKA) - Wednesday morning, City of Pittsburgh sanitation workers walked off the job, refusing to collect refuse until they receive hazard pay and protective equipment.

The city sent the workers home with pay for the day.


But Mayor Bill Peduto tells KDKA Radio protection wouldn't help the workers.

"Masks would actually cause more harm than good with them using their gloves in order to be able to adjust the mask in bringing it to their face."

Peduto says instructions have been posted at work stations and that trucks are cleaned daily and work gloves can also be cleaned every day.

One sanitation worker's wife has tested positive for COVID-19 raising concerns, but Peduto says it is not known where she contracted the virus.

Peduto also says the city cannot pay workers hazard pay and could only do so if the city raised taxes and he isn't going to do that now, especially with so many people being laid off.

 Officials are meeting with sanitation workers Wednesday morning.

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