The strike of 1968 was one of three labor strikes that took place within three years by city sanitation workers, who cited grievances of pay inequality and poor working conditions.
During the 1960s, the city was at the center of civil rights issues, notably a city sanitation workers' strike for living wages and better working conditions.
Within a year, a database of some 12,500 registration-required canine residents would be available to sanitation workers with sample-test kits.
The sanitation workers sought a shorter work week, pay raises, and new grievance procedures.
As a result of these perceived failed promises, sanitation workers demanded a wage increase of 25-cents an hour before they would return to work.
The savings from this new system of garbage collection was to be passed onto the sanitation workers, which according to the workers never materialized.
He marched with the citys sanitation workers who went on strike for 116 days in 1968, demanding better wages.
It is also worn by people in dusty environments such as sanitation workers.
