Teamsters reject inadequate Waste Management Inc. proposal

Official Statement of Teamsters Local 200 Secretary-Treasurer Tom Millonzi

MILWAUKEE, Sept. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — “Today, our members on strike against Waste Management voted down the company’s latest contract proposal. It was a unanimous vote to reject this proposal.

Our members chose not to vote for a contract that replaces their retirement’s defined benefit program with a 401(k) plan.

This corporate giant is at this very moment trying to purchase another waste competitor for approximately 7 billion dollars, to capture even more market share. Yet they refuse to spend the dollars needed to secure the already earned retirement benefits of the very workers that make this company successful.

We have offered to meet with the company at any time and at any place in order to resolve this contract.

There is a Sunday, September 21, 4 p.m. Central time deadline set by the company to accept the original last and final offer before the company pulls that offer off the table and replaces it with one that is inferior.”