Republic Services, Massachusetts and trash collector strike
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Several cities and towns in Greater Boston are taking a private sanitation company to court, saying its prolonged worker strike has led to piles of uncollected trash, hordes of rodents and a foul stink in the air.
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More Bay Area cities are threatening legal action against Republic Services to get money back to rate payers who have been without trash service.
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"We've given them a letter saying that Republic, that is, that they have breached our contract, and now we're going to be fining them," said Mayor Catherine Moy.
Lynnfield, North Reading, and Wakefield have notified Republic Services that it is failing to meet contractual obligations as a Teamsters union strike against the waste management company reaches two weeks.
A strike by Republic Services workers has disrupted waste collection for hundreds of thousands of customers across the Boston area.
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