Private N.Y. Garbage Collectors Strike
The city’s private sanitation workers Sunday began a strike that threatened to bury the city’s already littered sidewalks under mounds of uncollected garbage.
The collectors, who pick up 40% of the city’s trash, walked out after rejecting a new contract. The strike affects about 250,000 city businesses.
Marty Adelstein, recording secretary for Teamsters Local 813, which represents about 2,000 haulers, said owners had offered a three-year contract with a total weekly pay increase of $70, beginning with a $10 raise on June 1. The union sought a total hike of $95.
Businesses scurried to find alternative ways to handle their garbage, urging tenants to cut down on paper use and “double bag” perishable rubbish.
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