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Sanitation Workers Protest Fire-Damaged Changing Facility, Report Says

By DNAinfo Staff on February 25, 2011 1:34pm  | Updated on February 25, 2011 1:33pm

By Olivia Scheck

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN — New York's Strongest are fed up with conditions at the Hudson River sanitation garage that burst into flames last September, the New York Daily News reported.

Workers say the station, which they use to store personal items and change in and out of uniforms, was never adequately rehabbed after it was ravaged by fire on Sept. 4, 2010, according to the paper.

Because their locker room was destroyed by the blaze, the men have been forced to change in the hallways of a garbage dump, the News said.

So, on Friday, more than 50 sanitation employees showed up to the garage, located at Pier 97 off of West 57th Street, and refused to begin work, according to the paper.

Eventually, the Department of Sanitation agreed to a meeting about the conditions, and the workers returned to work, the News said.