Rows of black, green and blue trash bins, some overflowing with rubbish, are lining streets in some Bay Area cities as a workers strike drags into its second week. And residents say it's starting to become a problem.

Fairfield plans legal action against Republic Services amid trash pickup disruption due to a sanitation worker strike.

Mumbai: The BMC sanitation workers held a protest march at Azad Maidan on Thursday opposing the civic body’s plan to appoint a single agency for citywide waste collection, transport, manpower, and vehicle maintenance.

It’s bad enough to imagine the unsightly, unhealthy, stinking-to-high-heaven fallout from a garbage workers’ strike in mid-summer in hot and humid Boston. But, well, Boston is 3,000 miles from

Teamsters say Republic Services is "unwilling to offer workers good wages." Republic Services says these claims belong "in the trash."

Republic Services, one of two Whittier contract waste haulers, is embroiled in an ongoing labor dispute with the Teamsters Union in Boston. About 2,000 Teamsters are either on strike or honoring picket lines where there are no contract disputes. In California, affected cities include Anaheim, Santa Ana, Inglewood, Compton and Santa Fe Springs.

State leaders urge Republic Services to finalize contract with striking Teamsters as uncollected garbage piles up in Massachusetts communities and other states across the country.

Negotiations between Republic Services and Teamsters broke down late last week. Talks are set to resume Tuesday, but the impacts of the trash strike are growing more pronounced.