Content Tagged 'Sanitation'

The City of Memphis is working with AFSCME Local 1733 to come up with new ways to pick up your trash. Watch Video

There was a small victory for the union that represents the sanitation workers, but it will be a long time before any city employees could see their salaries restored. Watch Video

Striking workers with Republic/Allied Waste will be back on the job Thursday morning.

After two weeks without trash pick up, Republic Services sanitation workers are back in business. The union reached a deal with the company Sunday night. Watch Video

Sanitation workers with Republic Services went back on strike early Tuesday morning.

Your trash may not be picked up on time if you're one of thousands of Mid-Southerners depending on Republic Services/Allied Waste. Watch Video

The union representing Memphis sanitation workers has agreed that the city can move to automated garbage trucks.

Thousands of homes and businesses could have to deal with delays to their trash pick-up after workers with Allied Waste walked off the job.

Call it the calm before the storm. Memphis City Council members were told that a plan to buy out some sanitation workers has been put off for a month and a half. Watch Video

As a private waste hauler and the union representing 180 striking employees try to resolve a strike, a gunshot has been fired.

Sanitation workers in Memphis continue to work without a contract, thanks in part to Superstorm Sandy.

It isn't smelly yet, but frustration is growing as a garbage strike affecting hundreds of thousands of residents in the Mid-South prepare for the second day of a trash strike.

Striking Republic Waste workers held their ground at the South Shelby Landfill. They attempted to stop City of Memphis sanitation drivers from crossing their picket line, and to say that things became contentious would be an understatement. Watch Video

Memphis Mayor A C Wharton says put the boxing gloves down, there's not going to be any fight over the city's sanitation workers. Watch Video

Memphis sanitation workers are the most famous city employees we have. It goes back to the days when they wore the signs that read, 'I AM A MAN.' Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave up his life while in Memphis fighting for their rights. Now comes the possibility of the biggest change they've seen since the civil rights days. Watch Video