Six communities across Massachusetts impacted by the ongoing trash collector strike filed a complaint in Salem Superior Court Thursday morning asking a judge to put an end to it. "We filed a suit to try and get some relief from the court to require Republic to pick up our trash and recycling,

The waste management company said that a truck was stolen, vehicles were damaged, and that non-union workers are being harassed by Teamsters.

Bargaining between striking sanitation workers and the waste management giant they work for have ended in an impasse, as the company asks a federal judge to intervene to stop allegedly criminal negotiating tactics.