Last night, we gave you an extensive look at the protest from 50 angry BML workers who threw bags of garbage in front of City Hall.
That's after things came to a head because the Council owes their employer for 19 weeks of services or almost 1.48 million dollars. There is no timeline on when the company will be paid, and this has spilt over to the workers because BML can't afford to keep paying them.
Those workers raged, vented at the Mayor, and made a powerful statement with their pile of garbage spread on the street, but they also paid a price for it. First, they were in locked down for several hours, then they were charged, and then, they spent an entire day at court waiting to be arraigned.
But, we start first with the lock-down. We showed you pictures last night of how it looked inside that crowded cell block, and when they were released. We spoke with one of the employees as she exited the Queen Street Police Station after getting police bail. Here's what she told us:
Geovannie Brackett
"Ma'am this is first time you have been locked up?"
Faith Flores - BML Employee
"This is my first time."
Geovannie Brackett
"What message you have to send right now to the Mayor?"
Faith Flores - BML Employee
"All I got to tell them that this is not a political thing. This is all about us and our children; a job."
Geovannie Brackett
"You feel that this could have been dealt with much differently?"
Faith Flores - BML Employee
"This could have been dealt with much better than this, than to have us out here punishing - locking up us in a cell. I caught asthma in there and they left me like that. There are piss everywhere in there and got all us women in there to punish like this. One woman collapse in there and they took her out when he already fell. Hello, what goes around, comes around."
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