More than half of Arbor Hills Landfill’s employees in Salem Township went on strike Monday after Advanced Disposal Services, who owns the landfill, allegedly refused to bargain with the union in good faith. The Operating Engineers 324 filed two complaints with the NLRB, one of which has been approved and the second one pending. In a news release, the union said that workers at Salem Township landfill earn seven dollars less than workers at other landfills in Detroit, and pay $150 a week for health insurance. Both sides have proposals on the table, OE 324’s Communication Director Dan McKernan said Advanced Disposal isn’t meeting them anywhere near what he deems standard area wages, and that the strike will continue until the company is ready to come back to the negotiations table.
See "Salem Township Landfill Union workers go on strike", Tyler Clifford, Crain's Detroit Business, October 10, 2017