Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien announced that union members plan to flood the streets and shut down garbage collection across multiple states due to demands for better wages and benefits.
The work stoppage entered its second week with no end in sight, but a marathon bargaining session resulted in a 4 a.m. tentative agreement between the union's leaders and the city on Wednesday, July 9.
Efe Kurtluoglu, the assistant secretary of the Haringey NEU, stated: "It feels like the breaking of a contract... This agreement has been in place [almost] 40 years. Our members are angry, they want the schools to roll back these proposals."
"Overall, it is a great win," Soto Ramirez says. "We stood together and won benefits back for ourselves while also restoring the pre-Covid retirement policy for everyone in the museum."
Singh expressed frustration with the university's handling of staffing issues, saying, 'They're not going to the table with the sense of urgency that we want them to have to be able to hire more staff, retain staff.'