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  • Republic expects better service this week amid ongoing strike

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    Republic Services Inc. and the striking Teamsters Local 25 have still not scheduled any new negotiations sessions as of Sunday afternoon.

    The two parties last negotiated on July 18, without reaching a new contract that would end the now 28-day strike of local waste collection workers.


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  • Still no new negotiation sessions planned in trash strike

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    There are still no new negotiation sessions planned as the Teamsters Local 25 strike moves into its 25th day.

    Officials in Peabody, Gloucester, Danvers, Beverly, Canton and Malden also still awaited a decision in their lawsuit against Republic on Thursday afternoon, after filing a joint request for a preliminary injunction last week that would force Republic to carry out all contracted services, if accepted. They appeared in court over the matter Tuesday afternoon.


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  • Trash issues continue to stink

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    Thursday marks two dozen days since Republic Services Inc. workers went on strike.

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  • Officials face down Republic in court

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    SALEM — Leaders of Gloucester, Beverly, Peabody, Canton, Danvers and Malden appeared in court Tuesday afternoon over against Republic Services’s lacking service during the ongoing Teamsters’ strike.

    Their lawyers asked a Salem Superior Court judge to issue a preliminary judgement demanding that Republic carry out all contracted services in these communities, as the company has routinely left trash to sit in dumpsters and on curbs days past scheduled collection dates during the strike.


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  • Republic Services sues striking Teamsters

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    Republic Services Inc. has filed an injunction against the striking Teamsters Local 25 and the union’s president, Thomas Mari.

    The announcement came after another round of negotiations on Tuesday failed to bring about a new contract.


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  • Ex-Teamsters’ boss gets 19 months in Chicago extortion case

    Ex-Teamsters’ boss gets 19 months in Chicago extortion case

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    CHICAGO — A former Teamsters union boss who was once one of the most powerful labor leaders in Chicago was sentenced Wednesday to 19 months in federal prison for extorting $325,000 from the head of a film studio in the city.

    The sentence comes more than three years after John Coli Sr. pleaded guilty to extortion, faced with secret recordings made by Cinespace Chicago Film Studios President Alex Pissios in which Coli could be heard threatening a union strike if Pissios didn’t pay him.

    In one tape, Coli tells Pissios that he would have union workers walking a picket line that would shut the studio down “within an hour” if he didn’t continue making the secret payments.

    Prosecutors agreed to dismiss several counts against the 63-year-old Coli in exchange for his guilty plea to receiving prohibited payments as a union official and making a false income tax return.

    In exchange, Coli agreed to cooperate with federal investigators and that cooperation helped build an extortion case that landed former state Sen. Thomas Cullerton in prison this year. Cullerton pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges for improperly taking more than $248,000 from the Teamsters.

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