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The DSNY is the primary operator of the New York City waste management system. [2] The department's motto. "New York's Strongest", was coined by Harry Nespoli, long-time President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 831, to describe the Department of Sanitation's football team in the late 1970s to early 1980s. [3]
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
A common scene throughout New York City in 1968 during a sanitation workers strike The transit strike was the first of many labor struggles. In 1968 the teachers' union (the United Federation of Teachers , or the UFT) went on strike over the firings of several teachers in a school in Ocean Hill and Brownsville .
The one-day walkout, staged by SEIU Local 721, is expected to trigger the closure of animal shelters and at least some swimming pools and delay trash pickup until later in the week.
In 1987, the City of New York found that it had reached its landfill capacity. The city agreed to ship its garbage to Morehead City, North Carolina, where there were plans to convert it into methane. On 22 March 1987, the tugboat Break of Day towed the barge Mobro 4000 and its cargo of over 3,100 tons (2,812 tonnes) of trash. [2]
The search — 65 miles northwest of midtown Manhattan — is linked to the arrests last week of 10 people accused of strong-arming their way into New York City garbage hauling and demolition ...
1949 New York City brewery strike: 1949 New York City 7,000 Tompkins Square Riot: 1874 New York City: 6,500 1912 New York City waiters' strike: 1912 New York City 6,500 Homestead strike: 1892 Homestead, Pennsylvania: 6,550 2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery Strike [102] 2015 California, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas and Washington +6,000 [103]
Residential building workers in New York City have not staged a strike since a 12-day stoppage in 1991, according to 32BJ. In the end, Kyle Bragg, president of 32BJ, said negotiators reached a ...