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Agreement Reached in Republic Services Strike, with Trash Collection Expected to Resume in NorCal Cities
MULTIPLE MAJOR U.S. CITIES INCLUDING STOCKTON, FAIRFIELD, BOSTON, AND KING COUNTY, JUL 18 – Over 2,000 sanitation workers struck for better wages and healthcare, disrupting waste services in major U.S. cities before reaching a tentative agreement to end the walkout.
- On July 1, 2025, Teamsters Local 439 members in Stockton walked off the job, initiating a nationwide strike disrupting waste collection across the US.
- More than 2,000 Teamsters union members have joined the strike since July 1, demanding higher wages, improved healthcare, and other benefits amid conditions of poverty wages and an inferior health plan at Republic Services.
- Workers at Gardena and Long Beach yards honored a Boston picket line, causing disruptions in trash collection in Fairfield, Suisun City, and unincorporated Solano County, and suspending services in Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace, Everett, and Arlington.
- On Friday, Republic Services issued a statement saying, 'We’ve reached a tentative agreement with Teamsters Local 439 for our Forward Landfill employees,' and employees are returning to work tomorrow.
- On July 30, 2025, the leadership calls for a broader fight against the pro-corporate union bureaucracy and parties of big business.
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Republic Services and union reach deal, ending nearly 2-week-long strike to resume trash pickup
Republic Services and the union on Friday reached a tentative agreement, ending the nearly two-week-long strike that impacted garbage pickup services across multiple Bay Area cities.
Agreement reached in Republic Services strike, with trash collection expected to resume in NorCal cities
"Local 439 has informed us that picket lines are coming down across the Bay Area, and our employees are returning to work tomorrow," a statement from a Republic Services spokesperson said.
Nationwide strike by Republic sanitation workers in the US poses need for fight against Teamsters bureaucracy
The same playbook used by the AFSCME union to sabotage the city workers’ strike in Philadelphia is now being used by the Teamsters to limit and prepare to shut down the fight at Republic.
Union buster @ NLRB?
Friday, July 18, 2025 STRIKES ► KOMO — Garbage strike continues as Kent, Bellevue offer new trash drop-off sites for residents — Just outside the school grounds, Teamsters members held picket signs. They didn’t interfere with any customers during the drop-offs but were there to answer questions from the community. The picketers told KOMO […] The post Union buster @ NLRB? | Trash strike | WNBA CBA appeared first on The STAND.
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