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Regular trash pickup is set to resume Monday in more than a dozen Bay Area cities after Republic Services and its unionized landfill workers struck a deal to end a nearly two-week strike while trash and recycling services were halted.
Gilbert Gomez, a representative for the Teamsters Local 439 in Stockton, said the union’s newly organized three dozen members all voted in favor of their first contract on Sunday morning, which gives them healthcare at about $10 a week for the next five years.
“Overall, it’s a beautiful, nice first-time contract,” Gomez told KQED. “They now have union healthcare. It was a big issue. A lot of guys were paying anywhere from $400 to $1,200 a month for healthcare, so any little raises that the company gave them wasn’t really doing anything.”…