Garbage Strike Possible

garbage-truck-01.jpgTeamsters Local 174 has voted to authorize a strike. Local 174 members work for Waste Management Inc. and Allied Waste Industries Inc. meaning, yes, they're garbage men or waste management engineers or whatever. They're looking for health coverage improvements, safer working conditions and less mandatory overtime from their contract renegotiations or they're going to stop working and we know you've always been a fan of organized labor and that a garbage strike sounds very New York or Paris, but we bet it could get pretty unpleasant around Week 2.

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