BOSTON (SHNS) - Seven weeks into a mid-summer trash collection strike affecting 14 Massachusetts communities, Gov. Maura Healey on Monday pressed the top executive at Republic Services to help end the labor dispute.

"Your company’s failure to resolve or even meaningfully address this prolonged strike is unacceptable," Healey wrote in a letter to Republic Services President and CEO Jon Vander Ark.

"For seven weeks now, trash and recycling have been piling up in neighborhoods during the heat of summer, impacting public health and quality of life for thousands of Massachusetts residents," she wrote. "Communities across the state are being forced to bear the consequences and costs of stalled negotiations between your company and its workforce."

The strike began July 1, with Teamsters Local

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