'Get it done': Fairfield threatens legal action against trash pickup service as strike continues

Trash continues to pile up across Bay Area as teamsters strike continues

(BCN) -- Trash continues to pile up in Bay Area municipalities served by Republic Services, a waste management company that saw many of its workers go on strike around the nation last week. The strikes began on July 8 amidst ongoing national contract negotiations between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union and Republic Services, the second-largest waste management company in the U.S. Regionally, the strikes began due to contract neg…

Bay Area residents are grappling with overflowing trash as strike continues

A sanitation worker strike stopped trash pickup in many Bay Area cities last week.

Fairfield, Suisun City consider legal action amid ongoing trash standoff

City leaders in Fairfield and Suisun City are pursuing all their legal options in handling the ongoing trash collection standoff between Republic Services and Teamsters garbage collectors. Fairfield Mayor Catherine “Cat” Moy announced on Facebook late Wednesday that the city has “sent a letter telling Republic that it is in violation” of their contract which, she said, “opens the legal door for us to impose steep fines; to bring in another contr…

As cities sue Republic Services, Healey pressures company to end trash strike

Legal cases and uncollected trash are piling up, as negotiations between Republic and striking Teamsters are set to resume Friday.

Republic Services trash strike: Frustrated restaurants hire hauling companies

As the Republic Services workers strike drags on and trash continues to pile up in parts of the Bay Area, some impacted businesses are speaking out.

Strikes not slowing trash service in Valley

Trash pickup in Mahoning and Trumbull counties continued without interruption Wednesday despite a nationwide Teamsters strike against waste management company Republic Services, which owns and operates the Carbon Limestone Landfill in Lowellville. That could change. “We have a small number of union picketers outside of our Carbon Limestone Landfill, but the landfill is operating today,” a Republic Services media representative said Wednesday in …