The City of New York has agreed an innovative new deal with its 6,000 sanitation workers. The tentative contract would give the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association the largest raises of any municipal union in the current round of bargaining. But city officials said the raises were financed by various measures to raise productivity, including an agreement to lengthen each truck's collection route.
See "City Said to Reach Innovative Deal on Sanitation Contract", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, October 11, 2005