Negotiations between Republic Services and Teamsters broke down late last week. Talks are set to resume Tuesday, but the impacts of the trash strike are growing more pronounced.

A federal mediator was scheduled to meet with members of the Teamsters Local 25 and the trash company providing garbage services in more than a dozen Bay State cities and towns on Tuesday.

A total of about 450 Republic Services workers represented by the Teamsters union in the Boston area have been on strike since July 1, but the work stoppage has spread to Southern California and now i

Chula Vista residents handle trash disposal themselves as sanitation workers continue strike affecting 283,000 people

Union workers in some Los Angeles County cities are honoring a strike in Boston by not crossing the picket line, leaving trash in bins along the sides of local streets.

Republic Services sanitation workers are honoring picket lines in solidarity with striking workers in Boston. In the meantime, some cities are offering trash drop-off sites.

Republic Services trash and recycling collectors have been on strike since July 1 in several Massachusetts towns. Trash is piling up and negotiations have stalled after failed talks with federal mediators.

We will...SHUT DOWN GARBAGE COLLECTION in state after state,' Teamster President Sean O'Brien warns as sanitation workers in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and the Bay Area stop collections to

BOSTON — A longtime South Boston resident is at wits end with unrelenting rats that have infiltrated his property and taken over the backyard. Kevin Conroy has lived at his home on West Eighth Street for 30 years and has resided in South Boston for more than 50 years.