Representatives from Teamster local unions across the country are meeting today and tomorrow in San Francisco to discuss the solid waste industry, organizing workers and bargaining contracts.
Thanks to its strong record of representing members in the solid waste and recycling industries, Local 396 in Los Angeles, California has successfully defeated a group’s attempt to take over representation of some of its members at Republic Services.
Thanks to the perseverance of leaders from Local 164 in Jackson, Michigan, Allied Waste has paid a former local member about $78,000 in back pay, pension and health and welfare contributions for wrongfully firing the worker.
By a more than 2-1 margin, waste workers at Allied Waste in Fort Worth, Texas voted Thursday, January 15 to remain Teamsters despite a concerted effort by the company to halt the workers’ fight to win a contract.
Local 120 in Minneapolis has won a card-check/neutrality agreement—that far exceeds typical card-check agreements—with a 13-company consortium of waste-hauling companies which will make it easier for waste workers to become Teamsters.
The U.S. Department of Justice is requiring Republic Services Inc. and Allied Waste Industries Inc. to sell trash-hauling routes and landfills in 15 metropolitan areas as a condition of their merger, but the Teamsters Union remains concerned.
Welcome to the Solid Waste, Recycling and Related Industries web page. We hope this web site will serve as a source of information on the latest developments in the division.
This 38-page report (PDF) by the National Commission of Inquiry Into the Worker Health and Safety Crisis in the Solid Waste Industry looks at how Waste Management Inc. endangers the sanitation workers who protect the public's health.
