July 30, 2025 • 40 mins
The Republic Services trash strike continues with no end in sight. Lawmakers are urging the company to negotiate, while several towns headed to court to ask a judge to intervene. The affected communities were denied an injunction with Essex County Superior Court Judge Kathleen McCarthy-Neyman outlining it’s beyond the court's power to resolve labor disputes.
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cautionary tale and we will have doctor Jalisi with us
tomorrow night. Now, I want to talk about a story
that frankly has kind of got lost in the shuffle.
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It's been going on for about a month and there
are six base state communities that are impacted by a
horrific strike, a strike like this. This is the Republican Republic,
not Republican, this is Republican trash company. It is a
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national company. As I understand that Republic is in all
fifty states. About four hundred workers Teamsters Local twenty five
went on strike against Republic here in July first. It
affects fourteen communities in some form or fashion, but it
has tremendous impact on six communities Beverly, Molden, Gloucester, Pebty,
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Danvers in Canton. Now, those six communities asked a judge
to intervene, arguing, I think fairly intelligently that the disruptions
were caused by the strike were affecting residents and public health.
Republic responded this, according to an article in the Boston
Globe on July twenty fifth, that excuse me, July twenty ninth,
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actually today, my mistake. Republic responded it had brought in
workers from other businesses and other locations and made an
effort to continue regular service despite striking workers, according to them,
blocking trucks and harassing employees. I would love to know
from as many of you as possible and the affected communities,
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what has it been like. I have to assume it
has been nothing short of horrific. If a strike like
this were to occur in January, maybe the number of
rodents and feral animals might not be as active, but
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you have I'm sure public health circumstances in Beverly Mould
and Gloucester, Pbody, Danvers and Canton are very difficult at
this point now. The esse UH Superior Court Judge Kathleen
McCarthy Nyman basically ruled on Monday that the order requested
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by the communities would would be too vague and unclear
it would likely be impossible for republic to comply. She
wrote in her decision. I think that I'm not sure
what the relief was that was sought. I don't think
that the judge had an had the option to off
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off offer the union to go back to work. I
do think that the judge could have thought outside the
box a little bit and said, look, we have to
have some ongoing, legitimate negotiations up to and including some
form of mediation or arbitration. This is has to be
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horrific And if you live in any of these communities Beverly,
mal thn, Gloucester, Pewty, Damagers of Canton, I'd love to
know what you're going through right now and what is
it like up there. I know that it's been no
it's it's been brutal. I've watched on televisions people talking
about this. Now, there are some other communities which are
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potentially affected in lesser, lesser amounts. So, for example, Manchester
by the Sea, I don't understand. I have relatives that
live up in Manchester by the Sea. I don't understand
if Manchester by I think Manchester I see is a
separate community, but I think that they are heavily intergraded
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with Beverly, which is a community right next door. Marvelhead, Wakefield,
North Reading, Lynnfield, swampskid Watertown, Ipswich, Revere and Arlington are
all impacted as well. Now, they may not be impacted
as strongly as the sixth Company cities and communities that
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were in the court, but you have the deems to say,
you know, we need better paying benefits. And I tend
to be inclined towards supporting the union, and I am
in this case. I don't know the specifics of what
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is the ask and what is the offer. Obviously they
have to be pretty far apart to be out on
strike now for almost a full month. The strike started
on July first. According to an article which I've read here,
which I read here says the walkout has led to
overflowing dumpsters, unpleasant odors, and concerns about potential health emergencies. Now,
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I guess in some of the communities they have tried
to use local bringing trash to local dumb sites or
DPW sites, and apparently there's an effort to hire I
saw one of the TV reports that I hire a
junk removal company. This to me, for it to go
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on like this in Massachusetts is an embarrassment to the state.
It's an embarrassment to the political leadership in the state.
I don't see where there is political leadership, to be
really honest with you, it would seem to me that
the governor would want to get involved in this with
both feet. I think that the mayors in these communities
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have to take a good hard life look at what
does their budget look like, what flexibility, if any do
they have UH And if they don't have flexibility, what
program can they cut? Because I can't think of a
more important program in any community than trash removal. So
what I want to do is just open up phone lines,
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give you a chance to weigh in if you're in
one of the effective communities and like to make the
point of what it is like up there, what it
has been like up there wherever you are six seven
four ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty,
I have wide open lines. I can't imagine what it
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would be like for trash not to be picked up.
Because even if you were small enough and polite enough
to bring your traps out to the end of the
driveway every week in hopes that maybe circumstances would change,
and then bring it back inside your home or in
side your garage or wherever you store it inside a shed,
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at some point you run out of room, and at
some point you run out of trash can space, and
that then compounds the problem. Think all of us know
what I'm talking about. I raise the whole question in myself.
Where I am in the summertime. I take trash every
day or every other day to a dump, and the
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dump has big trucks that cart it off somewhere. I
have no idea where it goes. I try to be
responsible as an individual. I try to clean the milk
cotton out and make sure I recycle cans and bottles
that can be recycled. But I think too much many
of us, frankly, have taken for granted that the amount
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of trash that we go through, the amount of rubbish,
the amount of food we don't eat, the food that
we throw away, it will always have a place Mother
Earth will always have a place to take it. I
just don't understand the amount of trash that is generated
in the community where I am. On a daily basis,
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there's just a stream of cars never ending. A friend
of mine who actually is the in charge of the
dump at another nearby community and he tells me that
on a Sunday again, it's you know, he gets sixty
five hundred cars, sixty five hundred cars bringing trash. At
some point we'll have nowhere to put it. Sixty six
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one seven nine. Let's light it up. Who's right, who's wrong?
If you are involved in the impacted directly, Beverly, mauld
and Gloucester, Pebody, Danvers or Canton particularly, we'd like to
hear from all of you. And if you're not, how
would you handle it in your community. You got to
have school systems, there's no doubt about that. You need
police and fire, you need ems, but you need trash
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collection as well. We'll be back on side right after.
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I've opened up a conversation here which is probably not
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a national topic, so a lot of my audience who
may be in other parts of the country are going
to have difficulty understanding it. But we have a really
horrific situation here in Massachusetts in the midst of July,
and we've had a really hot July, and the temperatures
in July have been consistently, not every day, but consistently
in the eighties and nineties, and six communities, six cities
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and towns Beverly, mauld and Gloucester, Pebody, Danvers, and Canton
surprised that the phone lines haven't lit up from those communities.
Maybe those communities are happy with this situation. I kind
of believe that, to be really honest with you, because
it has to be pretty miserable to be living in
a community where trash hasn't been picked up since the
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month of June. Apparently strike did start on July first.
I don't know what other recourse the workers have other
than strike once negotiations break down between the teamsters and
the trash company. Unfortunately, the collateral damage here the communities
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that have a contract with the trash company seems to
me that if I were the mayor or the city
council of any of those communities Beverly Mauled and Gloucester, Pebty,
Danvers or Canton, I would one be looking for ways
to get out of the contract number one. Unfortunately that
will adversely impact the workers. But I have to as
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a mayor, I have to think primarily of my constituents
and the people who live in my community. I certainly
would say to Republic, if you can't maintain your relationships
with your employees so that our trash is picked up
on a regular, consistent and dependable basis, we're going to
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have to find another option. And I would think that
maybe they're in breach of contract. If it were me,
I would be looking at that immediately. That would put
pressure on both the union and on Republic to come
to some sort of a settlement. Now, if the if
the contract, and there are different contracts I'm sure which
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each of these communities with Republic. If the contract with
one particular city is a locked up five year deal,
which is probably a mistake for a city to make
in the first place, I would try as best I could,
through my legal counsel to get into court and to
try to get some some uh some relief here because
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you can't go on. I mean, this cannot continue through August.
You're you're through July, well except tomorrow's the thirty first.
I'd love I want to hear from you. What do
you what are you doing to deal with it? If
you're if you live in one of these communities, Uh,
well would you do if in your community trash was
not picked up? I know what I would do, And
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maybe you couldn't do this, but I would immediately think
about composting my garbage. And I was immediately thinking about
making sure that my cardboard and my newspapers and all
of that were put in a place where they were
where they were safe. I wouldn't put them necessarily in
a garage where they could catch fire, but I would
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put them somewhere where they would be safe. But they
would they would not be accessible to rats and mice
and things like that. I mean, we're talking about, you know,
the health of a community here. We all have to eat,
we live our lives, and you come to tend to
rely upon these types of services. This is Massachusetts. We
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like to think of ourselves in Massachusetts as a high
tech state where services are available. We're not like some
of the states. We look down our noses in Massachusetts said,
you know some of the so called poorer states Alabama
and Mississippi and South Carolina. I don't know that, And
again I'm not in those states. I kind of imagine
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that they would have strikes like this in those states.
So I want to hear from you six seven two
four ten thirty six seven nine three one ten thirty.
I'm willing to talk about this until eleven o'clock, but
I would much refer to hear from you, particularly if
you live in Beverly, Malden, Gloucester, Peberty, Danvers, or Canton.
What are you doing? What are you doing to make
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up What are you doing to keep your family safe,
keep your family healthy? What are you doing to keep
your community healthy? That has to be something that you've
got to be thinking about. Has to be very frustrating
to take your trash barrels to the end of the
street or out to the sidewalk every week, leave them
there and not be picked up. You've got to bring
them back. You've got to somehow figure out how do
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I how do you make more room in the we
all have those big containers. Now, I think all of
us or most communities have the green barrels for recycle
and the blue barrels for trash. What do you do?
And maybe if you're out of Massachusetts and you're having
tough time relating to this story, have you ever had
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strikes like this in your community where for a month,
for a full month, your community did not have the
benefit of trash pickup. This is a service that is
provided by the community. People do not in most cities
and towns in Massachusetts individually contract with private trash collection pickups. Oh,
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there may be some people who have that taken care of.
And by the way, there are eight other communities, actually
I think it's ten other communities who have some form
of service from this company Republic. They are interested by
the Sea, Marblehead, Wakefield, North Reading, Lynfield, swampskit Watertown, Ipswich, Revere,
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and Arlington. We have not hit this topic for the
entire month of July, and I must confess I've been
remissing that we've had other topics we've been dealing with.
But I want to deal with this one tonight, and
we will begin with your phone calls let's light these
phone lines up. Because I can only judge the stories
of interest in my audience by the phone calls I received.
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There's no other way for me to judge what you
want to talk about. As a community. I can get
one individual who can call me up and tell me
they want to talk about whatever, you know, the polar
ice cap or something. That's fine. But when we throw
a topic like this out and people are not interested,
that says to me, it's not a topic that people
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are interested in. It's simple as that. But lines are
lighting up, Let's keep going. This is your opportunity to
share with the world what you've been dealing with. If
you live in these communities, and if you're not in
one of those communities and you want to suggest, I
would be looking. If I was a mayor of any
other city in Massachusetts, whether you deal with republic or
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waste management, I would be looking at that contract making
sure this would not come home and occur in my city.
That's what mayors and that's what city councilors and boards
of aldermen are supposed to do. They don't need to
worry about national topics. They need to worry about international topics.
Worry about the topics that are most important to your community,
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and those are the topics that strike closer to home,
and no topics strikes closer to home other than police,
fire and ems than trash collection. We'll be back on
nights Side. The only line open right now six one seven,
one line at six one seven, two, five, four to
ten thirty and one line at six one seven, nine
three one ten thirty. Don't be calling it an at
tent of midnight and think you're going to get the
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last word. We will go to the people who are
called in first. I hope that you coming back on
night Side.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
All right, let's let's see what people have to say.
Let me go to Pelvis in Middleton, Pelvis, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
How are you hey?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
How you doing Middleton impacted or no?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
No, but Copsfield? So I do? I am A I
have a landscape design and construction company.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
So my company does Hamilton when i'm top Field Middleton.
So yeah, I mean some of the communities. Cop Field
is definitely dealing with it, and they're paying extreme taxes
to incorporate their trash pickup and they should have adequate
trash pickup.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
So no matter what, it doesn't, it doesn't appear to
me that they're listed on the stories that I have
read that there are they customers of Republic.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yes, yeah, no, no dam verus as well. But anyways,
I have a friend of mine who you know, has
his own private thing here. But like, no matter what
I mean, when you're on strike, I get it, but
there has to be some kind of constant, you know,
some kind of plan in place where they're stubbing out
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some of the work to at least get some of
it handled while while they're doing their strike. And you
have to have other companies doing this. So now they
are a companies stepping up who are doing it at
a very low price to just keep them rolling around
these communities. Not being inner city. I get it. I know,
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I'm in Middleton, top silled, whatever. But you know, but
these companies, I mean, I'm almost thinking, I'm like, you know,
this is so lucrative. I'm like, I almost take my
landscape company. I have five dump trailers. I might put
out a whole crew of guys that go out and
just start doing trash. But the point is, these people
let me.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Ask you this, Pelvis. Okay, if you were to do that, okay,
how much of a physical problem would your guys have
because I'm sure that the teamsters would not be happy
to see you collecting trash one of those communities.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
If you get man, I know that I get it.
But those teenses, while they are in their you know, negotiations,
they have to delegate some of this to an interim,
you know, to get it done while they are negotiating.
They have to have some kind of solution. You can't
just lead people with stacks of trash in front of
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their house. Of course, in the city it's even worse
with the rats and all the problems. You can't do that.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
But from the union perspective, I'm not sure the union
wants to solve the problem for the cities because let's
assume I don't think.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
That they're not that far off. They're they're not as
far off as what they're making it out to be.
They're very close on with all the other major trash
compassion companies and all the other major trash collection companies
that are not that far off. It should be if
I were very quickly.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Or the board of selectment of one of these communities,
I now would look at trash collection companies a whole
lot differently.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
So in Middleton, for instance, right, I pay one hundred
and thirty dollars a year a year to go to
my local trash place in Middleton.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So what I'm saying is you you drive your trash
to the dump, right, yes, okay, so therefore you don't.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
But most of these companies are charging seventy to eighty
dollars a month. That's the difference.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
No, I understand that, but what I'm saying. But what
I'm saying is, as I understand the situation in these communities.
At least where I live, I pay real estate taxes,
and one of the benefits if you want to call
it a benefit of the taxes that you is trash payer.
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You're on the other hand, you are driving your trash
to the dump and you are paying a dump fee,
and that's it the town.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
No. But so, like I said in top series, they're
just like you Dan there, they are assuming it's in
their taxes. That's what that's my Yeah, So when you
are trying to I know, you have to go through
a process to dissolve the you know, the whole the
whole thing with the union everything. But you have to
have a plan in place. Somebody has to be doing
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it to keep to keep it rolling. I mean I
don't know. I mean my guys.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, well, so you're as a landscaper, you're thinking to
yourself that maybe what you might like to do is
is turn your landscaping company into a trash collection company.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
We'll just add to it. But my friend Jay Garage
from Jay's Junk, he'll come do whatever you want in
the interim. He's picked up almost sixty percent in the
past couple of weeks around these in these neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
He's a private who's paying for that.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
No, they pay. They have to pay out of pocket
of course. Like so you're a guy, you know, who
pays your taxes, but you're in this predicatament you have
to pay a private company to come do it, to
deal with it.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I get that. But what I'm saying is that the
town is not going to say, hey, no, that's yeah
and Pelvis and they're okay, it's it's a tough spot.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
The town is. It's super tough. But when that when
you expected that in your taxes, it's expected. I mean
there are guys dumping trash. I read every morning there's
people dumping trash in the middle of you know, right
down in the Peabdy Selectman, Like they're dumping trash right
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in front of like people are getting with it. You
have to, yeah, City Hall, right, you have to do
something though, to mitigate what's going on right now. You
have to have a sub you have to have something
going on.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I get it. No, I get it, I get it.
It sounds to me like.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
It's not fair to anybody else. Of course, it.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Sounds to me, Pelvis, like the towns are not doing
anything to mitigate it. The towns are not saying we
have you.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Know, three comp Pelvis, but they're not going to do
it right right.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And so it's it's now the initiative of the homeowner
or the landlord to contract privately with Jay or whoever
else has to try whoever. Yep, you got it, Pelvis.
Appreciate your call. I really do it. Thank you for
checking out. Appreciate, Oh, thank you much. Only lines that's
a great call, good call, good information. It just talks
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about the predicament. These people are in. Only line open
right now, don't The only one is six one seven
nine three, one tenth. There they got two lines right there.
Let me go to West Pevity, Thomas. In West Pevity, Tom,
what is it Pvity tonight?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Dan. I've had a good, good experience here. We get
a Friday trash collection. The first week we were a
day late. Since then, they picked up my trash every
day on time. They've been very neat. There's no trash
around the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Who's picking up the trash? It's not Republic.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Republic, it's the Republic. It is the Republic they have
So okay, just help me out, Ton.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
How can they be picking up the trash if they're
on strike?
Speaker 4 (27:32):
They have replacement workers. Republic has gotten workers from other states.
They have a lot of replacement workers, and and Pevity
a lot of the places they're picking up the trash.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
So okay, So what Republic is trying to do?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Yeah, a Republic. They're using Republic trucks. But there are
guys who are from other areas and they seem to
know the roots. They're very neat.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Tom. Again, you're the guy there, and I got questions
for you. Okay, sure are the are the republic guys
who are coming in from out of town to do
the jobs of the republic guys who are on strike.
Are they getting hassled by the strikers?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
And no, I think there is a little bit of it.
If you actually if we go up Route one and
in Pevity there are two republic locations, I go buy
them one of them. Mostly every day there are guys
picketing along the road and there's a police car watching them,
and I think they give try and give a little
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trouble to the trucks coming in and out. But there's
a lot of trucks there. But these guys that they've
they've got in our area are actually doing a very
good job. It started off. They did not take the recycling.
They're only just the regular trash. It's pretty good. I mean,
I've get a different perspective than you've heard.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
I guess, well, yeah, And that's why your your call
is so important, because that again you're concerned about one thing,
which is understandable.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
You want your trash picked up. You pay your taxes
to the city of Peeviety, Peeboty is in a contractual
relationship with republic uh and you it seems to me
like Republicans trying to pick up as much trash as possible.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
They're also trying to do.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
But they're also trying to do probably is plus the
union because if.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah, something from out of state.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, well the Republic employees, that's kind of interesting too.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Maybe they don't know whether they're I don't know whether
the Republic from out of state or they hired them
from out of state, but they're they're seemed to be
experienced people. It's not that easy a job, you know,
if you ever watch these guys do the trash.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Well, by the way, of course, I know that it's
a tough job. I know that. But that's what's going
on at Fenway Park, you have.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, Erra Mark is bringing in what's called scab workers,
you know, replacement workers, right. Uh, and so the people
who have been there for twenty twenty five years. Uh,
they're trying to get a new contract. Obviously Ara Mark's
not willing to meet their demands, and they're on a
picket line, and aer Mark will probably hope that eventually
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the union will say what are we out here the
picket line for where we're losing every day? Every day
there's a game, we lose another day off the calendar.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
So it's a classic.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
It's a classic struggle, I guess Tom. I appreciate you,
oh very much. Thanks so much for joining us today,
give us a little bit of a perspective. That's what
that's all right. I appreciate it. Thank you. Good night. Okay,
we get some lines six one seven one at six
one seven two four thirty and one at six one
seven nine. I got Joelene coming up in Beverly, followed
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by Sandra and Carver, and I got room for you.
Dial it up right now and we'll get you on
between now and midnight. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
You're on nights Side with Dan Ray, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Oh let's go to Beverly. Julene in Beverly, Joline, thank
you very much for calling in next Nightside.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
I grew up in Middleton. It's nice to know it
still has the dump. I remember that as a kid.
But I live in Beverly now and Republic only is
picking up our trash, no recycle stuff. What Mayor k Hill,
Mayor of Beverly does is he calls us frequently to
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let us know if, for instance, my pickup day is Fridays. Yep,
he says, if you have your trash picked up on Friday,
it will be picked up this Monday instead. So it's
been like one or two days later the last few weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Standable under the circumstances.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
So what are you doing? What are you doing then
with the recyclables? Are you storing them somewhere in your house,
in your garage outside? What are you doing?
Speaker 6 (32:11):
We're doing a lot of tripping over stuff ygerous, Yeah,
I know, but I try to put out as much
as I can. But if we get a major storm,
then all the paper trash is so wet, and that's
it really hard to pick up for us and Republic employees.
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So I try to keep as much stuff in the
house as possible. I'm lucky. I have a compost pile
way out back in the corner of my yard. Although
I am thinking about signing up for the garbage pickup.
I would like that because I don't like walking out
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there in the winter, especially.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I thought you said the Republic was picking up garbage now.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Not Well, if people put their garbage with their trash,
but I separate minors.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Okay, well, you're you're a good citizen, Then who do
you blame here or is it just or is it
just life in the big city? Who do you blame? Oh?
Speaker 6 (33:24):
I I don't play the blame game. I you're a
nice person.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I'd be furious.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Well, Mayor Khill's very good about keeping us up today,
and he is making a way to bring our recycle
stuff to different parts of this city like today for instance.
He had an am time and a PM time starting
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at eight in the morning or for clock this afternoon
and said that it will go on for at least
two hours, two or three hours.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
And where do you bring this? Do you have a
do you have a dump in Beverly? Where do you
bring it?
Speaker 6 (34:13):
We don't have a dump. This is a temporary thing.
Republic will if they're not on strike, and if you
sign up to have your compost taken that's what I
want to do eventually. I don't know if yeah, Republic
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my guests picks that up. I don't have that service yet.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
All right, Okay, well, look keep us posted. Thanks for
calling and want to get a couple of more callers
in before I have to shut the program down at
least for the night. Jollie, best of luck.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Okay, thank you Dan.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
You sound like a great citizen who is going to
you're rolling with the punches a little bit better. I
wish your best of luck. Thank you, you have a
great Now let me go to Sandra and Carver. Sandra,
you're next on night Side. You're you're not affected by this,
I assume, right.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
No, no, I'm not. However, I've had occasion to talk
to a few people, and first of all, not all
of Republic is union, so I can answer you that question.
There's parts of Republic that's non union, right, and apparently
the union workers, according to the news, have been vandalizing
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trucks and given Republic a hard time.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Well, I think that that's what Republic says, and that's
you would expect.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
That's on the news.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
That's on the news.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
But I think they're quoting a statement. I believe they're
quoting a statement from Republic. I'm just trying to be
fair here.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
Okay, you're saying, yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I don't know that there have been any union members
or employees who have been caught in the act, because
if they if they were vandalizing the truck and the
police officer, they'd be arrested.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
Well, they probably do it when no police are around.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Well, right, I mean, if you to do it, but
again until the people start to get arrested. So you
I assume you're not thrilled that this union has gone
on strike.
Speaker 7 (36:11):
No, I'm not really a union person. I think they're
very disruptive, are causing a lot of problems in this country,
which is right now in terrible situation. But anyways, I
also had listened to some of the money that they want,
and after a five year period, they're going to make
one hundred and forty thousand dollars a year. You've got
r ns and I've even making that much money.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Well, that's true, and the union is going to push
for whatever they can make, whatever they can get. You know,
that's what the job of the union is. And the
job of the company obviously is to keep it somewhat
in real And what will happen is there'll be some
other companies that will come along and undercut and win
the contracts because there comes a point in time where
these cities in towns just the taxpayers. It breaks the
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taxpayers backs.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
That's right to pay all that kind of money. The
taxes are really high everywhere. I guess I pay for
my own so you know, and I Also, I've always
had compost bins, so I compost. There's no food waste
ever going into my food. I've always been a gardener.
I've had a vegetable garden. My house is surroundal fliles.
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I use composts all the time.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Also, good good for you and Sandra. I appreciate you
expressing this opinion, because I think this is one of
those arguments where there's some arguments on both sides. The union.
One of the union guys want to make as much
money as they can and at the same time unions.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
And I've worked out of unions. I'm retired nurse. I
got paid whichever job there was, and I'm a worker,
so I'm not someone that has to worry about a break.
I don't take them.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I don't All right, Sandra, I got to take a
break as I'm going to try to give one other caller.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Okay, goodbye, thank you very much for calling.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Let me go next to Nancy in Canton. Nancy, you're late.
I can give you a minute.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
Right ahead, Okay, Dan, I just have two questions for
you and then I'll get off. Question number one is
I haven't had trash collection for four or five weeks
and I'm a nurse. I just came home from work
and what I was told by someone at work is
they hired someone to pick up the trash. However it
takes them a week to get around. And what's happening
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is some of the strikers, I guess, are standing in
front of the trash barrels for two minutes, not allowing
them to pick up my trash. I don't know if
that's legal or why they're striking against me. I'm not
the one who pays me night.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I agree with you. I agree with you, and I'd
be very upset by that. I'm totally in agreement with you,
and I think that if the police should monitor that
in Canton On. The police have a lot of issues
in Canton and deal with as you know, maybe they
have bigger fish to fry.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
Okay, the second thing is now I have two mice.
I am someone coming out from two to four tomorrow
to exterminate. I understand that's an ongoing process which is
going to cost me between four and six thousand dollars.
I'm not complaining about that, but I take collection and
that happens, so can I hold the town responsible for that?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
No, you can't.
Speaker 8 (39:10):
Okay, but I paid the trash collection and they're not
collecting it.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Well, I think that you might be able to do that,
but you know that's it's gonna be. You're in a
tough spot in Nancy. I wish I could give you
a quick and easy answer. Nancy. Thanks for calling. I
wish you called early because we have much more to
talk about. If we touch this again, call back.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Okay, all right, thank you so much, Thanks very much, Nancy.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
We're done for the night. There's no night Side postgame tonight.
I'm just running out of time. I will see you
tomorrow at four thirty in the afternoon, and see tomorrow
night at eight o five. All dogs, all cats, all
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
All right, thank you very much, Dan Hawkins. As we
get to a different topic. And by the way, it's
good to know that Carlers like Jeff and Bob are
out there, even though one is a Trumper. I mean,
Jeff is a Trumper, died in the world trumper. Bob
hates Trump. But they're combined in their dislike for me,
(00:29):
which is fine with that. Fine with me, that is
for sure. And they always welcome to call and express themselves.
If they can do it in a rational way, we
can have a conversation. If they want to be interruptive,
we get into more of a conversation which tends to
be unpleasant but but spirited. All right, Tomorrow night at
(00:51):
nine o'clock, we will bring back doctor Charouk Jualisi. He
is the head of the Auto laryen Gallology Department Gallogy Department,
which is the department of head and neck surgery. This
is the time during the summer when too many of
us are walking around without hats, too many of us
(01:13):
are walking around without sun screen on us and doctor
Jalisi we had on a week or so ago and
he basically deals with cancers above the neck, head and
neck cancers and tumors and docklands surgery, robotic surgery, oral cancer,
skin cancers, open and endose and scopic, skull based surgery,
(01:35):
pituitary resections, acoustic tumors, and local microvascular reconstruction of the
head and neck. An amazing physician and join us tomorrow
night at nine o'clock. So again, it's a cautionary tale
because there are people who get some of the worst cancers.
I mean, all cancer is difficult, but some of the
(01:57):
worst cancers of the cancers that are described as above
the collar bone cancers, and I hope none of you
have ever dealt with them, or ever will dealt with
them or anyone in your family. But it is a
cautionary tale and we will have doctor Jalisi with us
tomorrow night. Now, I want to talk about a story
that frankly has kind of got lost in the shuffle.
(02:18):
It's been going on for about a month and there
are six base state communities that are impacted by a
horrific strike, a strike like this. This is the Republican Republic,
not Republican, this is Republican trash company. It is a
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national company. As I understand that Republic is in all
fifty states. About four hundred workers Teamsters Local twenty five
went on strike against Republic here in July first. It
affects fourteen communities in some form or fashion, but it
has tremendous impact on six communities Beverly, Molden, Gloucester, Pebty,
(03:05):
Danvers in Canton. Now, those six communities asked a judge
to intervene, arguing, I think fairly intelligently that the disruptions
were caused by the strike were affecting residents and public health.
Republic responded this, according to an article in the Boston
Globe on July twenty fifth, that excuse me, July twenty ninth,
(03:32):
actually today, my mistake. Republic responded it had brought in
workers from other businesses and other locations and made an
effort to continue regular service despite striking workers, according to them,
blocking trucks and harassing employees. I would love to know
from as many of you as possible and the affected communities,
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what has it been like. I have to assume it
has been nothing short of horrific. If a strike like
this were to occur in January, maybe the number of
rodents and feral animals might not be as active, but
(04:16):
you have I'm sure public health circumstances in Beverly Mould
and Gloucester, Pbody, Danvers and Canton are very difficult at
this point now. The esse UH Superior Court Judge Kathleen
McCarthy Nyman basically ruled on Monday that the order requested
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by the communities would would be too vague and unclear
it would likely be impossible for republic to comply. She
wrote in her decision. I think that I'm not sure
what the relief was that was sought. I don't think
that the judge had an had the option to off
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off offer the union to go back to work. I
do think that the judge could have thought outside the
box a little bit and said, look, we have to
have some ongoing, legitimate negotiations up to and including some
form of mediation or arbitration. This is has to be
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horrific And if you live in any of these communities Beverly,
mal thn, Gloucester, Pewty, Damagers of Canton, I'd love to
know what you're going through right now and what is
it like up there. I know that it's been no
it's it's been brutal. I've watched on televisions people talking
about this. Now, there are some other communities which are
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potentially affected in lesser, lesser amounts. So, for example, Manchester
by the Sea, I don't understand. I have relatives that
live up in Manchester by the Sea. I don't understand
if Manchester by I think Manchester I see is a
separate community, but I think that they are heavily intergraded
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with Beverly, which is a community right next door. Marvelhead, Wakefield,
North Reading, Lynnfield, swampskid Watertown, Ipswich, Revere and Arlington are
all impacted as well. Now, they may not be impacted
as strongly as the sixth Company cities and communities that
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were in the court, but you have the deems to say,
you know, we need better paying benefits. And I tend
to be inclined towards supporting the union, and I am
in this case. I don't know the specifics of what
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is the ask and what is the offer. Obviously they
have to be pretty far apart to be out on
strike now for almost a full month. The strike started
on July first. According to an article which I've read here,
which I read here says the walkout has led to
overflowing dumpsters, unpleasant odors, and concerns about potential health emergencies. Now,
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I guess in some of the communities they have tried
to use local bringing trash to local dumb sites or
DPW sites, and apparently there's an effort to hire I
saw one of the TV reports that I hire a
junk removal company. This to me, for it to go
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on like this in Massachusetts is an embarrassment to the state.
It's an embarrassment to the political leadership in the state.
I don't see where there is political leadership, to be
really honest with you, it would seem to me that
the governor would want to get involved in this with
both feet. I think that the mayors in these communities
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have to take a good hard life look at what
does their budget look like, what flexibility, if any do
they have UH And if they don't have flexibility, what
program can they cut? Because I can't think of a
more important program in any community than trash removal. So
what I want to do is just open up phone lines,
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give you a chance to weigh in if you're in
one of the effective communities and like to make the
point of what it is like up there, what it
has been like up there wherever you are six seven
four ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty,
I have wide open lines. I can't imagine what it
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would be like for trash not to be picked up.
Because even if you were small enough and polite enough
to bring your traps out to the end of the
driveway every week in hopes that maybe circumstances would change,
and then bring it back inside your home or in
side your garage or wherever you store it inside a shed,
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at some point you run out of room, and at
some point you run out of trash can space, and
that then compounds the problem. Think all of us know
what I'm talking about. I raise the whole question in myself.
Where I am in the summertime. I take trash every
day or every other day to a dump, and the
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dump has big trucks that cart it off somewhere. I
have no idea where it goes. I try to be
responsible as an individual. I try to clean the milk
cotton out and make sure I recycle cans and bottles
that can be recycled. But I think too much many
of us, frankly, have taken for granted that the amount
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of trash that we go through, the amount of rubbish,
the amount of food we don't eat, the food that
we throw away, it will always have a place Mother
Earth will always have a place to take it. I
just don't understand the amount of trash that is generated
in the community where I am. On a daily basis,
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there's just a stream of cars never ending. A friend
of mine who actually is the in charge of the
dump at another nearby community and he tells me that
on a Sunday again, it's you know, he gets sixty
five hundred cars, sixty five hundred cars bringing trash. At
some point we'll have nowhere to put it. Sixty six
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one seven nine. Let's light it up. Who's right, who's wrong?
If you are involved in the impacted directly, Beverly, mauld
and Gloucester, Pebody, Danvers or Canton particularly, we'd like to
hear from all of you. And if you're not, how
would you handle it in your community. You got to
have school systems, there's no doubt about that. You need
police and fire, you need ems, but you need trash
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collection as well. We'll be back on side right after.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
This, it's Nightside with Foston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
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I would prefer that you call and join the conversation.
I've opened up a conversation here which is probably not
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a national topic, so a lot of my audience who
may be in other parts of the country are going
to have difficulty understanding it. But we have a really
horrific situation here in Massachusetts in the midst of July,
and we've had a really hot July, and the temperatures
in July have been consistently, not every day, but consistently
in the eighties and nineties, and six communities, six cities
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and towns Beverly, mauld and Gloucester, Pebody, Danvers, and Canton
surprised that the phone lines haven't lit up from those communities.
Maybe those communities are happy with this situation. I kind
of believe that, to be really honest with you, because
it has to be pretty miserable to be living in
a community where trash hasn't been picked up since the
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month of June. Apparently strike did start on July first.
I don't know what other recourse the workers have other
than strike once negotiations break down between the teamsters and
the trash company. Unfortunately, the collateral damage here the communities
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that have a contract with the trash company seems to
me that if I were the mayor or the city
council of any of those communities Beverly Mauled and Gloucester, Pebty,
Danvers or Canton, I would one be looking for ways
to get out of the contract number one. Unfortunately that
will adversely impact the workers. But I have to as
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a mayor, I have to think primarily of my constituents
and the people who live in my community. I certainly
would say to Republic, if you can't maintain your relationships
with your employees so that our trash is picked up
on a regular, consistent and dependable basis, we're going to
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have to find another option. And I would think that
maybe they're in breach of contract. If it were me,
I would be looking at that immediately. That would put
pressure on both the union and on Republic to come
to some sort of a settlement. Now, if the if
the contract, and there are different contracts I'm sure which
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each of these communities with Republic. If the contract with
one particular city is a locked up five year deal,
which is probably a mistake for a city to make
in the first place, I would try as best I could,
through my legal counsel to get into court and to
try to get some some uh some relief here because
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you can't go on. I mean, this cannot continue through August.
You're you're through July, well except tomorrow's the thirty first.
I'd love I want to hear from you. What do
you what are you doing to deal with it? If
you're if you live in one of these communities, Uh,
well would you do if in your community trash was
not picked up? I know what I would do, And
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maybe you couldn't do this, but I would immediately think
about composting my garbage. And I was immediately thinking about
making sure that my cardboard and my newspapers and all
of that were put in a place where they were
where they were safe. I wouldn't put them necessarily in
a garage where they could catch fire, but I would
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put them somewhere where they would be safe. But they
would they would not be accessible to rats and mice
and things like that. I mean, we're talking about, you know,
the health of a community here. We all have to eat,
we live our lives, and you come to tend to
rely upon these types of services. This is Massachusetts. We
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like to think of ourselves in Massachusetts as a high
tech state where services are available. We're not like some
of the states. We look down our noses in Massachusetts said,
you know some of the so called poorer states Alabama
and Mississippi and South Carolina. I don't know that, And
again I'm not in those states. I kind of imagine
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that they would have strikes like this in those states.
So I want to hear from you six seven two
four ten thirty six seven nine three one ten thirty.
I'm willing to talk about this until eleven o'clock, but
I would much refer to hear from you, particularly if
you live in Beverly, Malden, Gloucester, Peberty, Danvers, or Canton.
What are you doing? What are you doing to make
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up What are you doing to keep your family safe,
keep your family healthy? What are you doing to keep
your community healthy? That has to be something that you've
got to be thinking about. Has to be very frustrating
to take your trash barrels to the end of the
street or out to the sidewalk every week, leave them
there and not be picked up. You've got to bring
them back. You've got to somehow figure out how do
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I how do you make more room in the we
all have those big containers. Now, I think all of
us or most communities have the green barrels for recycle
and the blue barrels for trash. What do you do?
And maybe if you're out of Massachusetts and you're having
tough time relating to this story, have you ever had
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strikes like this in your community where for a month,
for a full month, your community did not have the
benefit of trash pickup. This is a service that is
provided by the community. People do not in most cities
and towns in Massachusetts individually contract with private trash collection pickups. Oh,
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there may be some people who have that taken care of.
And by the way, there are eight other communities, actually
I think it's ten other communities who have some form
of service from this company Republic. They are interested by
the Sea, Marblehead, Wakefield, North Reading, Lynfield, swampskit Watertown, Ipswich, Revere,
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and Arlington. We have not hit this topic for the
entire month of July, and I must confess I've been
remissing that we've had other topics we've been dealing with.
But I want to deal with this one tonight, and
we will begin with your phone calls let's light these
phone lines up. Because I can only judge the stories
of interest in my audience by the phone calls I received.
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There's no other way for me to judge what you
want to talk about. As a community. I can get
one individual who can call me up and tell me
they want to talk about whatever, you know, the polar
ice cap or something. That's fine. But when we throw
a topic like this out and people are not interested,
that says to me, it's not a topic that people
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are interested in. It's simple as that. But lines are
lighting up, Let's keep going. This is your opportunity to
share with the world what you've been dealing with. If
you live in these communities, and if you're not in
one of those communities and you want to suggest, I
would be looking. If I was a mayor of any
other city in Massachusetts, whether you deal with republic or
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waste management, I would be looking at that contract making
sure this would not come home and occur in my city.
That's what mayors and that's what city councilors and boards
of aldermen are supposed to do. They don't need to
worry about national topics. They need to worry about international topics.
Worry about the topics that are most important to your community,
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and those are the topics that strike closer to home,
and no topics strikes closer to home other than police,
fire and ems than trash collection. We'll be back on
nights Side. The only line open right now six one seven,
one line at six one seven, two, five, four to
ten thirty and one line at six one seven, nine
three one ten thirty. Don't be calling it an at
tent of midnight and think you're going to get the
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last word. We will go to the people who are
called in first. I hope that you coming back on
night Side.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
All right, let's let's see what people have to say.
Let me go to Pelvis in Middleton, Pelvis, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
How are you hey?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
How you doing Middleton impacted or no?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
No, but Copsfield? So I do? I am A I
have a landscape design and construction company.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
So my company does Hamilton when i'm top Field Middleton.
So yeah, I mean some of the communities. Cop Field
is definitely dealing with it, and they're paying extreme taxes
to incorporate their trash pickup and they should have adequate
trash pickup.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
So no matter what, it doesn't, it doesn't appear to
me that they're listed on the stories that I have
read that there are they customers of Republic.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yes, yeah, no, no dam verus as well. But anyways,
I have a friend of mine who you know, has
his own private thing here. But like, no matter what
I mean, when you're on strike, I get it, but
there has to be some kind of constant, you know,
some kind of plan in place where they're stubbing out
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some of the work to at least get some of
it handled while while they're doing their strike. And you
have to have other companies doing this. So now they
are a companies stepping up who are doing it at
a very low price to just keep them rolling around
these communities. Not being inner city. I get it. I know,
(21:42):
I'm in Middleton, top silled, whatever. But you know, but
these companies, I mean, I'm almost thinking, I'm like, you know,
this is so lucrative. I'm like, I almost take my
landscape company. I have five dump trailers. I might put
out a whole crew of guys that go out and
just start doing trash. But the point is, these people
let me.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Ask you this, Pelvis. Okay, if you were to do that, okay,
how much of a physical problem would your guys have
because I'm sure that the teamsters would not be happy
to see you collecting trash one of those communities.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
If you get man, I know that I get it.
But those teenses, while they are in their you know, negotiations,
they have to delegate some of this to an interim,
you know, to get it done while they are negotiating.
They have to have some kind of solution. You can't
just lead people with stacks of trash in front of
(22:37):
their house. Of course, in the city it's even worse
with the rats and all the problems. You can't do that.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
But from the union perspective, I'm not sure the union
wants to solve the problem for the cities because let's
assume I don't think.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
That they're not that far off. They're they're not as
far off as what they're making it out to be.
They're very close on with all the other major trash
compassion companies and all the other major trash collection companies
that are not that far off. It should be if
I were very quickly.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Or the board of selectment of one of these communities,
I now would look at trash collection companies a whole
lot differently.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
So in Middleton, for instance, right, I pay one hundred
and thirty dollars a year a year to go to
my local trash place in Middleton.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So what I'm saying is you you drive your trash
to the dump, right, yes, okay, so therefore you don't.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
But most of these companies are charging seventy to eighty
dollars a month. That's the difference.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
No, I understand that, but what I'm saying. But what
I'm saying is, as I understand the situation in these communities.
At least where I live, I pay real estate taxes,
and one of the benefits if you want to call
it a benefit of the taxes that you is trash payer.
(24:05):
You're on the other hand, you are driving your trash
to the dump and you are paying a dump fee,
and that's it the town.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
No. But so, like I said in top series, they're
just like you Dan there, they are assuming it's in
their taxes. That's what that's my Yeah, So when you
are trying to I know, you have to go through
a process to dissolve the you know, the whole the
whole thing with the union everything. But you have to
have a plan in place. Somebody has to be doing
(24:36):
it to keep to keep it rolling. I mean I
don't know. I mean my guys.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, well, so you're as a landscaper, you're thinking to
yourself that maybe what you might like to do is
is turn your landscaping company into a trash collection company.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
We'll just add to it. But my friend Jay Garage
from Jay's Junk, he'll come do whatever you want in
the interim. He's picked up almost sixty percent in the
past couple of weeks around these in these neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
He's a private who's paying for that.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
No, they pay. They have to pay out of pocket
of course. Like so you're a guy, you know, who
pays your taxes, but you're in this predicatament you have
to pay a private company to come do it, to
deal with it.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I get that. But what I'm saying is that the
town is not going to say, hey, no, that's yeah
and Pelvis and they're okay, it's it's a tough spot.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
The town is. It's super tough. But when that when
you expected that in your taxes, it's expected. I mean
there are guys dumping trash. I read every morning there's
people dumping trash in the middle of you know, right
down in the Peabdy Selectman, Like they're dumping trash right
(25:55):
in front of like people are getting with it. You
have to, yeah, City Hall, right, you have to do
something though, to mitigate what's going on right now. You
have to have a sub you have to have something
going on.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I get it. No, I get it, I get it.
It sounds to me like.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
It's not fair to anybody else. Of course, it.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Sounds to me, Pelvis, like the towns are not doing
anything to mitigate it. The towns are not saying we
have you.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Know, three comp Pelvis, but they're not going to do
it right right.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And so it's it's now the initiative of the homeowner
or the landlord to contract privately with Jay or whoever
else has to try whoever. Yep, you got it, Pelvis.
Appreciate your call. I really do it. Thank you for
checking out. Appreciate, Oh, thank you much. Only lines that's
a great call, good call, good information. It just talks
(26:45):
about the predicament. These people are in. Only line open
right now, don't The only one is six one seven
nine three, one tenth. There they got two lines right there.
Let me go to West Pevity, Thomas. In West Pevity, Tom,
what is it Pvity tonight?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Dan. I've had a good, good experience here. We get
a Friday trash collection. The first week we were a
day late. Since then, they picked up my trash every
day on time. They've been very neat. There's no trash
around the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Who's picking up the trash? It's not Republic.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Republic, it's the Republic. It is the Republic they have
So okay, just help me out, Ton.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
How can they be picking up the trash if they're
on strike?
Speaker 4 (27:32):
They have replacement workers. Republic has gotten workers from other states.
They have a lot of replacement workers, and and Pevity
a lot of the places they're picking up the trash.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
So okay, So what Republic is trying to do?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Yeah, a Republic. They're using Republic trucks. But there are
guys who are from other areas and they seem to
know the roots. They're very neat.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Tom. Again, you're the guy there, and I got questions
for you. Okay, sure are the are the republic guys
who are coming in from out of town to do
the jobs of the republic guys who are on strike.
Are they getting hassled by the strikers?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
And no, I think there is a little bit of it.
If you actually if we go up Route one and
in Pevity there are two republic locations, I go buy
them one of them. Mostly every day there are guys
picketing along the road and there's a police car watching them,
and I think they give try and give a little
(28:37):
trouble to the trucks coming in and out. But there's
a lot of trucks there. But these guys that they've
they've got in our area are actually doing a very
good job. It started off. They did not take the recycling.
They're only just the regular trash. It's pretty good. I mean,
I've get a different perspective than you've heard.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
I guess, well, yeah, And that's why your your call
is so important, because that again you're concerned about one thing,
which is understandable.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
You want your trash picked up. You pay your taxes
to the city of Peeviety, Peeboty is in a contractual
relationship with republic uh and you it seems to me
like Republicans trying to pick up as much trash as possible.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
They're also trying to do.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
But they're also trying to do probably is plus the
union because if.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah, something from out of state.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, well the Republic employees, that's kind of interesting too.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Maybe they don't know whether they're I don't know whether
the Republic from out of state or they hired them
from out of state, but they're they're seemed to be
experienced people. It's not that easy a job, you know,
if you ever watch these guys do the trash.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Well, by the way, of course, I know that it's
a tough job. I know that. But that's what's going
on at Fenway Park, you have.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, Erra Mark is bringing in what's called scab workers,
you know, replacement workers, right. Uh, and so the people
who have been there for twenty twenty five years. Uh,
they're trying to get a new contract. Obviously Ara Mark's
not willing to meet their demands, and they're on a
picket line, and aer Mark will probably hope that eventually
(30:23):
the union will say what are we out here the
picket line for where we're losing every day? Every day
there's a game, we lose another day off the calendar.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
So it's a classic.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
It's a classic struggle, I guess Tom. I appreciate you,
oh very much. Thanks so much for joining us today,
give us a little bit of a perspective. That's what
that's all right. I appreciate it. Thank you. Good night. Okay,
we get some lines six one seven one at six
one seven two four thirty and one at six one
seven nine. I got Joelene coming up in Beverly, followed
(30:56):
by Sandra and Carver, and I got room for you.
Dial it up right now and we'll get you on
between now and midnight. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
You're on nights Side with Dan Ray, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Oh let's go to Beverly. Julene in Beverly, Joline, thank
you very much for calling in next Nightside.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
I grew up in Middleton. It's nice to know it
still has the dump. I remember that as a kid.
But I live in Beverly now and Republic only is
picking up our trash, no recycle stuff. What Mayor k Hill,
Mayor of Beverly does is he calls us frequently to
(31:39):
let us know if, for instance, my pickup day is Fridays. Yep,
he says, if you have your trash picked up on Friday,
it will be picked up this Monday instead. So it's
been like one or two days later the last few weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Standable under the circumstances.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
So what are you doing? What are you doing then
with the recyclables? Are you storing them somewhere in your house,
in your garage outside? What are you doing?
Speaker 6 (32:11):
We're doing a lot of tripping over stuff ygerous, Yeah,
I know, but I try to put out as much
as I can. But if we get a major storm,
then all the paper trash is so wet, and that's
it really hard to pick up for us and Republic employees.
(32:34):
So I try to keep as much stuff in the
house as possible. I'm lucky. I have a compost pile
way out back in the corner of my yard. Although
I am thinking about signing up for the garbage pickup.
I would like that because I don't like walking out
(32:56):
there in the winter, especially.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I thought you said the Republic was picking up garbage now.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Not Well, if people put their garbage with their trash,
but I separate minors.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Okay, well, you're you're a good citizen, Then who do
you blame here or is it just or is it
just life in the big city? Who do you blame? Oh?
Speaker 6 (33:24):
I I don't play the blame game. I you're a
nice person.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I'd be furious.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Well, Mayor Khill's very good about keeping us up today,
and he is making a way to bring our recycle
stuff to different parts of this city like today for instance.
He had an am time and a PM time starting
(33:58):
at eight in the morning or for clock this afternoon
and said that it will go on for at least
two hours, two or three hours.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
And where do you bring this? Do you have a
do you have a dump in Beverly? Where do you
bring it?
Speaker 6 (34:13):
We don't have a dump. This is a temporary thing.
Republic will if they're not on strike, and if you
sign up to have your compost taken that's what I
want to do eventually. I don't know if yeah, Republic
(34:37):
my guests picks that up. I don't have that service yet.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
All right, Okay, well, look keep us posted. Thanks for
calling and want to get a couple of more callers
in before I have to shut the program down at
least for the night. Jollie, best of luck.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Okay, thank you Dan.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
You sound like a great citizen who is going to
you're rolling with the punches a little bit better. I
wish your best of luck. Thank you, you have a
great Now let me go to Sandra and Carver. Sandra,
you're next on night Side. You're you're not affected by this,
I assume, right.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
No, no, I'm not. However, I've had occasion to talk
to a few people, and first of all, not all
of Republic is union, so I can answer you that question.
There's parts of Republic that's non union, right, and apparently
the union workers, according to the news, have been vandalizing
(35:27):
trucks and given Republic a hard time.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Well, I think that that's what Republic says, and that's
you would expect.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
That's on the news.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
That's on the news.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
But I think they're quoting a statement. I believe they're
quoting a statement from Republic. I'm just trying to be
fair here.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
Okay, you're saying, yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I don't know that there have been any union members
or employees who have been caught in the act, because
if they if they were vandalizing the truck and the
police officer, they'd be arrested.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
Well, they probably do it when no police are around.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Well, right, I mean, if you to do it, but
again until the people start to get arrested. So you
I assume you're not thrilled that this union has gone
on strike.
Speaker 7 (36:11):
No, I'm not really a union person. I think they're
very disruptive, are causing a lot of problems in this country,
which is right now in terrible situation. But anyways, I
also had listened to some of the money that they want,
and after a five year period, they're going to make
one hundred and forty thousand dollars a year. You've got
r ns and I've even making that much money.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Well, that's true, and the union is going to push
for whatever they can make, whatever they can get. You know,
that's what the job of the union is. And the
job of the company obviously is to keep it somewhat
in real And what will happen is there'll be some
other companies that will come along and undercut and win
the contracts because there comes a point in time where
these cities in towns just the taxpayers. It breaks the
(36:55):
taxpayers backs.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
That's right to pay all that kind of money. The
taxes are really high everywhere. I guess I pay for
my own so you know, and I Also, I've always
had compost bins, so I compost. There's no food waste
ever going into my food. I've always been a gardener.
I've had a vegetable garden. My house is surroundal fliles.
(37:18):
I use composts all the time.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Also, good good for you and Sandra. I appreciate you
expressing this opinion, because I think this is one of
those arguments where there's some arguments on both sides. The union.
One of the union guys want to make as much
money as they can and at the same time unions.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
And I've worked out of unions. I'm retired nurse. I
got paid whichever job there was, and I'm a worker,
so I'm not someone that has to worry about a break.
I don't take them.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I don't All right, Sandra, I got to take a
break as I'm going to try to give one other caller.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Okay, goodbye, thank you very much for calling.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Let me go next to Nancy in Canton. Nancy, you're late.
I can give you a minute.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
Right ahead, Okay, Dan, I just have two questions for
you and then I'll get off. Question number one is
I haven't had trash collection for four or five weeks
and I'm a nurse. I just came home from work
and what I was told by someone at work is
they hired someone to pick up the trash. However it
takes them a week to get around. And what's happening
(38:20):
is some of the strikers, I guess, are standing in
front of the trash barrels for two minutes, not allowing
them to pick up my trash. I don't know if
that's legal or why they're striking against me. I'm not
the one who pays me night.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I agree with you. I agree with you, and I'd
be very upset by that. I'm totally in agreement with you,
and I think that if the police should monitor that
in Canton On. The police have a lot of issues
in Canton and deal with as you know, maybe they
have bigger fish to fry.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
Okay, the second thing is now I have two mice.
I am someone coming out from two to four tomorrow
to exterminate. I understand that's an ongoing process which is
going to cost me between four and six thousand dollars.
I'm not complaining about that, but I take collection and
that happens, so can I hold the town responsible for that?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
No, you can't.
Speaker 8 (39:10):
Okay, but I paid the trash collection and they're not
collecting it.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Well, I think that you might be able to do that,
but you know that's it's gonna be. You're in a
tough spot in Nancy. I wish I could give you
a quick and easy answer. Nancy. Thanks for calling. I
wish you called early because we have much more to
talk about. If we touch this again, call back.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Okay, all right, thank you so much, Thanks very much, Nancy.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
We're done for the night. There's no night Side postgame tonight.
I'm just running out of time. I will see you
tomorrow at four thirty in the afternoon, and see tomorrow
night at eight o five. All dogs, all cats, all
pets go to heaven. That's why Pal Charlie ray Is,
who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's where all
your pets are who were passed. They loved you and
you love them. I do believe you'll see them again,
hope see again tomorrow night or nights. I please tell
(39:54):
your friends about Nightside and join the program as a
caller back on Nightside tomorrow night
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