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When my parents met, they worked for the NYC government, which was in a bitter fight with the sanitation union about switching from rear-loading trucks that required a three-man crew (still all men until 1986) rather than labor-saving top-loaders. 1/2 nytimes.com/1982/04/20/nyregion/2-man-garbage-crews-agreed-on-for-the-city.html