Workers at a company that hauls trash for 10,000 commercial customers in and around New York City walked off the job yesterday morning, in the first strike against a private garbage-hauling company in the city since 1990. The union that represents the workers, Local 813 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, began the strike after months of heated negotiations with the company, Waste Management of New York, over a new contract for 120 drivers and helpers.
See "Trash Workers Go on Strike After Months of Negotiations", Sewell Chan, The New York Times, April 3, 2006