Health & Fitness
Bay Area Garbage Collection Workers Stop Pickups In Solidarity With Stockton Strike
"We put our garbage out today thinking they were going to pick it up, but they went on strike in support of Stockton," said Villareal.
July 9, 2025
Trash cans full of trash are still sitting at the curb in front of tens of thousands of homes across the Bay Area, with more trash collection service disruptions possible for the rest of the week.
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Workers with Republic Services in Stockton are on strike, and a number of union workers in the Bay Area say working would be crossing the extended picket line.
There are no trash pickups in San Jose, Daly City, Half Moon Bay, Richmond, San Pablo, Union City, Newark or Fremont until the strike in Stockton is over, which could be a day or a week or more.
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