Remember how I was so surprised a few weeks ago to see a woman on the back of a NYC Sanitation truck for the first time in 13 years here?
I just came back from a trip to Montreal, and the very first garbage truck I saw there had a woman on the back of it.
Methinks there might be a bit of provincialism/protectionism in the NYC Sanitation union. But as someone on the City Council told a firefighter who was complaining about diversity meaning that guys whose fathers and uncles and brothers were firefighters couldn’t be assured of following in their footsteps: It’s a civil service job. It’s not the family business.
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