Both the City of San Diego and Teamsters confirmed to ABC 10News that the solidarity strike has ended, indicating that Republic Services' trash services will be fully restored for residents.

Several cities and towns in Greater Boston are taking a private sanitation company to court, saying its prolonged worker strike has led to piles of uncollected trash, hordes of rodents and a foul stink in the air.

It’s bad enough to imagine the unsightly, unhealthy, stinking-to-high-heaven fallout from a garbage workers’ strike in mid-summer in hot and humid Boston. But, well, Boston is 3,000 miles from

As the garbage strike drags on and work stoppages continue, Republic Services and Teamsters are working on returning to the bargaining table.

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.

Sanitation workers in Clairemont ended their work stoppage, resuming trash services after honoring a nationwide strike over wages and benefits.

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

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.