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Governor Maura Healey weighed in on the weekslong strike thwarting trash pickup in at least 14 Greater Boston communities on Thursday morning, urging Republic Services to reach a deal.

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.

Trash is already starting to pile up at apartment complexes and commercial properties in central San Diego as some Republic Services trash collectors join a sympathy strike with workers in Boston.

In solidarity with a nationwide strike in support of union workers in Boston, trash collection in Rosemead has ceased this week, city officials announced Wednesday. While the underlying labor dispute is unrelated to the city of Rosemead,

With sanitation workers still on strike in some Massachusetts communities, trash is piling up outside businesses and homes.

A Teamsters spokesperson says the picket lines have moved to the Republic Services location on Clairemont Mesa Boulevard, meaning customers will not have their trash picked up.

A federal mediator was scheduled to meet with members of the Teamsters Local 25 and the trash company providing garbage services in more than a dozen Bay State cities and towns on Tuesday.