By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
December 9, 2017
Milwaukee, WI - On Monday, December 11, a rally will take place at 6:00 p.m. at City Hall in the City of Milwaukee planned by unions and multiple organizations that will call on city officials to end the contracts with American Sewer Services, Inc. (ASS) for allowing a contract worker to display a Confederate flag and a Ku Klux Klan decal in a cooler at a work site located at N. 25th Street and W. Wells in Milwaukee. ASS is owned and operated by Dennis Biondich from Rubicon, Wisconsin, according to state corporation records. Currently, ASS has a $1.4M contract with the City of Milwaukee.
Last Wednesday, the Milwaukee Common Council Public Works Committee held a hearing in regards to a photo taken at N.19th Street and W. Meinecke Ave. of three ASS workers open carrying handguns and one of the workers was holding his handgun openly.
The City of Milwaukee has a Firearms and Dangerous Weapons policy that prohibits City employees and contractors from carrying weapons during working hours at work sites and on the field. Members of the Public Works Committee and fellow aldermen/women agreed to create a resolution making it clear that weapons are prohibited during working hours at all areas where employees and contractors including subcontractors.
Alderman Bob Donovan during the hearing exposed that some City employees told him that they carry conceal handguns while working, which is in violation of the firearms and dangerous weapons policy.
The rally at City Hall on Monday is sponsored by the Young Workers Committee of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Coalition of Black Labor Unionists, the Milwaukee Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Justice Coalition, Citizen Action of Wisconsin, Young People's Resistance Committee, NAACP, Voces de la Frontera, LULAC and the Jewish Community Relations Council including allies.
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