{"id":28800,"date":"2017-06-08T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/republic-services-reaches-tentative-contract-agreement-with-recycle-yard-waste-drivers\/"},"modified":"2017-06-12T11:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T18:00:32","slug":"republic-services-reaches-tentative-contract-agreement-with-recycle-yard-waste-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/republic-services-reaches-tentative-contract-agreement-with-recycle-yard-waste-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Republic Services reaches tentative contract agreement with recycle, yard waste drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teamsters Local 117 achieved a fully recommended tentative agreement with Republic Services on Wednesday night over a contract involving 120 recycle and yard waste drivers employed at the company&rsquo;s locations in Bellevue, Seattle, Lynnwood and Kent.<\/p>\n<p>The four-year contract proposal is subject to ratification by the membership. Members will have an opportunity to vote on the offer in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Recycle and yard waste drivers perform difficult, dangerous work to protect the public health and keep our neighborhoods clean,&rdquo; said John Scearcy, secretary-treasurer and the lead negotiator for Teamsters Local 117, in a media release. &ldquo;We will be bringing our members together soon to discuss this contract proposal and to bring the offer to a vote.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The old contract between the Teamsters and Republic Services expired on May 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teamsters Local 117 achieved a fully recommended tentative agreement with Republic Services on Wednesday night over a contract involving 120 recycle and yard waste drivers employed at the company&rsquo;s locations in Bellevue, Seattle, Lynnwood and Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":28801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28800"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}