Trashed
Inside New York’s Deadly Private Garbage Industry
Fatal accidents; brutal work conditions; suspicious unions; lax oversight. Every night in New York, trucks from scores of private trash collection companies hit the city’s streets — often creating havoc and too rarely being reined in by regulators.
New York City Council Passes Legislation to Help Workers in Private Trash Industry
One bill authorizes an oversight agency to directly police the labor unions at companies across the city. Another would require the agency to refer labor and wage violation cases to law enforcement. The mayor is expected to sign them.
Proposal Seeks to Give New York’s Private Trash Industry Watchdog Sharper Teeth
The legislation would allow the agency to bar union officials from representing workers in the industry if they are found to be lacking “good character, honesty and integrity.”
Sanitation Salvage, Troubled Garbage Hauler, Surrenders Operating License
In a letter sent to New York City regulators, lawyers for the company said it would cease operations “forthwith.”
Sanitation Salvage Ordered to Halt Trash Collections
The Business Integrity Commission suspended the license of one of New York’s biggest garbage haulers after it was involved in two fatal accidents and a spate of collisions.
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