Vladivostok Novosti Company
September 04, 1997

Some cities fire officials after garbage strikes

Karen Husemeyer Boerboom

Your site's date says 1 August. What is the current situation on the garbage strike? I have not seen any papers carrying this story in the Midwest of the United States. When I was on the city council in Pismo Beach, California, 1972-76, the citizens had a situation where they could not get financial information for six months. Finally a neighboring city published this fact, and eventually the city administrator was fired.
What is the current health situation there?

Karen Husemeyer Boerboom
Dubuque, Iowa




Karen:The garbage strike ended Aug. 5 when Gov. Yevgeny Nazdratenko agreed to pay some of the back wages of striking trash collectors. We reported on it on Aug. 7, in Issue No. 14 (you can find it in our archives). Sorry if we had an old date on a more recent issue; sometimes our otherwise peerless Web layout staff neglects such details.

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Business Chronicle
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Second stock market opens
Brief ban on Chinese meat lifted
Editor fights for building
Castle an uneven discovery
Shopping Greed
Coming home
Arseniev fete planned
Fleet moves out of church
School starts amid cuts
News in Brief
Sunken ship raised in harbor
Despite cuts to services, Vlad`s budget shows huge surplus
Cherepkov: peacemaker or victim?
Crime Chronicle
Policeman calls charges political
Kidnapped couple found murdered
Privatize trash collection, and recycle
Think twice before getting that tattoo
Ignore tattoos and they’ll go away
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