November 17, 2008: Shareholders of Fort Lauderdale-based Republic Services and Phoenix-based Allied Waste Industries on Friday overwhelmingly approved a deal for the two waste companies to merge.
Also Friday, a union-supported group that says it advocates for competition in the waste industry issued a report challenging the merger.
Click here to read more at The Miami Herald.The Teamster Independent Investigations Officer (IIO) has issued a report recommending charges against Joe Smith, the principal officer of Delaware Local 326, for illegally driving union-owned cars for more than a decade after getting convicted of a DUI and for lying under oath during the investigation.
700 UNFI Teamsters in California are organizing to win a contract that delivers wage parity with Southern California Grocery Teamsters and an end to unfair discipline policies.
