NYC's private garbage industry is getting overhauled. Can a notorious Teamsters local clean up again?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The cartel's breakup unleashed the free market on an industry in which labor costs account for a major portion of a customer's fee.
51% : "When deregulation came and these other companies started springing up, they didn't even have organizing plans."
49% : Yet Local 813, which used to represent drivers and helpers across the entire private sanitation industry before its membership plummeted in recent years, joined the eclectic coalition of activists championing the bill in the hope that the city will be able to do what, in its view, the free market could not: enforce acceptable baseline working conditions industry-wide by refusing licenses to "low-road" companies.
46% : But whether born of regulation or a legally dubious cartel system, the stability didn't last.
46% : Meanwhile, the Teamsters' mob ties faced increasing scrutiny from law enforcement.
39% : But troubling dynamics -- including diminishing pay and safety for workers, amounting to what the New York Times editorial board called a "model failure of the free market" -- have emerged in their wake.
39% : According to law enforcement, the arrangement, presided over by the Gambino and Lucchese families, made waste disposal perhaps the most lucrative of the supposedly legitimate New York-area mafia businesses.

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