International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Local 813, Private Sanitation Union.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 813, Private Sanitation Union, was chartered in September 1951 with jurisdiction over workers in New York City’s private sanitation industry.

Leonard Krouner was one of the attorneys who represented Carnival Carting, Inc. and its Executive Vice-President Richard (“Rick”) Carnivale in a case that the union brought before the National Labor Relations Board in 1982. The union charged that the employers failed to bargain in good faith (and other related charges), and the employers countered with a barrage of allegations of intimidation and fraud on the part of the union. The context of the dispute was the bitter seventeen-day sanitation strike that began December 1, 1981 and left New York City covered in 100,000 tons of garbage. Two thousand members of Local 813 struck against 480 carting companies, three of which, Carnival Carting, S.W.C. (Statewide Carting Disposal) and Anchor Waste became involved in the NLRB disputes.

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