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When speaking about injuries found that the outsourcing of Winnipeg’s solid they incurred on the job, many seemed resigned waste collection has resulted in the reduction of to the fact that the system was not responsive to unionized jobs and replaced many of these jobs them or their situation, instead responding that with contractor and subcontractor positions as when they were hurt they would ‘ju [...] In dispatch office to fix it —STEVE, Swamper the case of swampers, a DNR can be issued for a variety of reasons by either the driver — wheth- This worker went on to describe how after go- er contracted or employed by the client firm, or ing above the driver and reporting this to the the client firm (in this case Emterra). [...] In the above slippery, sometimes you have to walk alongside instance of the stop work order being issued, the truck and there’s not a lot of room to Emterra claimed that the drivers of the trucks manoeuvre because of the snow bank, and I were responsible for ensuring the work was car- slipped under the truck and fortunately the ried out safely, however the inspector from WSH driver was looking at [...] Unfortunately, while we see how important the As of June 2017, approximately half of the driver is when it comes to ensuring the safety of the solid waste collection drivers for Emterra were swampers, there does not appear to be any formal contractors.18 This means that many of these mechanism in place to ensure that the driver is drivers have to oversee aspects of garbage collec- capable and will [...] Another interviewee described his interac- This worker went on to describe how that while the tion with a temp agency he was working for af- THA and client-firm don’t explicitly tell the work- ter he got hurt on the job: ers not to report, it is clear to the workers that the The day I hurt myself, I went there [the temp employer does not want them to say anything and agency] the next day to get an