Lucas: Healey getting trashed by ongoing strike
Source: Boston Herald
The governor might need help if she can’t even get the company to return her calls
By Peter Lucas
PUBLISHED: August 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM EDT
Gov. Maura Healey ought to call on President Donald Trump to end the weeks long garbage pickup strike that has bedeviled 14 communities, including Arlington where the governor lives.
If Trump can bring warring Armenia and Azerbaijan together, let alone Vladimir Putin and Volodymir Zelensky, surely he can bring Republic Services, the contractor, and the striking rubbish collectors of Teamsters local 25 to the table.
However, it is something that Healey has failed to do as sunbaked and rain-soaked trash has piled up in the communities even as Republic has brought in nonunion workers to do the job.
She might even have brought in Republican former Gov. Charlie Baker to help out with some muscle. Baker, after all, stands at six feet, six inches tall compared to Healey’s five feet four inches.
A striking worker reacts as a non union driver returns a truck to Republic Services in Peabody.
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