City Councilmen Zeke Cohen and Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer brought pizza and bottled water to the Eastern Sanitation Yard yesterday, continuing their pressure campaign on Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young to give more money to garbage workers.

Like many waste hauling agencies around the country, the Department of Public Works is facing a worker shortage as households produce more trash while sheltering at home during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Cohen and Schleifer say the best way to get rid of the trash accumulating in Baltimore’s alleys and to resume recycling suspended in August, is to pay workers more for the difficult and dangerous job.

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