Stalemate in New York; Teamsters, Waste Management haven't negotiated since early January.(labour dispute: Unionized workers and Waste Management Inc)
Waste News, February, 2006 by Johnson, Jim
Byline: Jim Johnson Unionized workers and Waste Management Inc. are locked in a labor dispute in New York City that a Teamsters official said could have implications across the country. About 125 members of Teamsters Local 813 have been working without a contract since the end of November.
The two sides are at odds over workweek rules and medical insurance benefits, said Louis Romeo, business agent for the union. "What they're doing now is they're just playing hardball,'' Romeo said about the company. "This is just a belief: They're looking to take out New York so the dominoes will fall throughout the country.'' A company spokesman refuted that theory and pointed to other labor deals as proof. "Absolutely not,'' spokesman George...
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