NewsLabor, Politics How the Trash Industry Worked Overtime Trying to Thwart New York City’s Reform Plans A push against a zoning proposal involved a trade group helmed by a man convicted in a bid-rigging scheme; $500,000 to a lobbying firm that drafted legislation; and a lawmaker who was recently in business with one of the major haulers. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaDecember 31, 2018
NewsPolitics Private Construction-Waste Truck Hits Man Outside de Blasio Event The mayor has touted pedestrian safety as a core aim of his mayoralty, and the crash comes as his administration is pushing a major reform that it says will improve the safety records of the army of private commercial garbage trucks that crisscross the city’s streets. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaDecember 18, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor Sanitation Salvage, Troubled Garbage Hauler, Surrenders Operating License In a letter sent to New York City regulators, lawyers for the company said it would cease operations “forthwith.” Kiera FeldmanProPublicaNovember 27, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor A Trash Industry Union Thrives, and Employees Say They Are Left Holding the Bag One of the biggest unions in New York’s private garbage industry is run by a man with a long record of run-ins with the authorities, and its vice president is a convicted felon. Many workers say it’s a union in name only. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaNovember 2, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor Private Trash Haulers Resist New Safety Measures As New York City’s oversight agency moves to have companies regularly report accidents, traffic violations and license suspensions involving their drivers, the haulers push back. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaSeptember 19, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor At Hearing for Bronx Trash Hauler, More Questions About Safety and Oversight Unregistered employees. Dangerously long driving schedules. Sanitation Salvage’s bid last week to have its suspension lifted produced more damning findings and fresh questions about why it took regulators so long to act. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaSeptember 5, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor Embattled Garbage Hauler Co-Owns Dump With Person Expelled From Trash Industry A ProPublica review found that the agency that oversees New York City’s commercial trash industry may have overlooked another potential impropriety involving Sanitation Salvage. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaAugust 28, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor Sanitation Salvage Ordered to Halt Trash Collections The Business Integrity Commission suspended the license of one of New York’s biggest garbage haulers after it was involved in two fatal accidents and a spate of collisions. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaAugust 24, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor “Yo, Take the Rap for Me”: More Trouble for a Garbage Hauler This time, an unlicensed employee was behind the wheel of a Sanitation Salvage truck when it smashed head-on into a sedan on a Bronx street. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaAugust 20, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor A Fatal Accident Leads to Broader Questions About NYC Trash Hauler’s Operations A ProPublica inquiry sparked by the death of a motorist in Brooklyn shows the trash company involved is headquartered on land owned by someone banned from the industry years ago. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaAugust 13, 2018