Dive Brief:

• The city of Princeton, New Jersey, will decide within 60 days if it will privatize sanitation or keep its current service through the Teamsters union.
• Princeton Mayor Bob Hurst maintains that seven employees would be affected if the city privatizes, but that those workers would not definitely be out of a job if a change occurs.
• ​The new contract begins on January 1, 2014.

Dive Insight:

The Teamsters union makes up half of the workforce in the city's sanitation, water and sewage departments. Two waste companies are being considered, in addition to the union. According to the Princeton Daily Clarion, the mayor said, “They might be shifted to other departments. Those retiring may have their jobs phased out through attrition."