Dive summary:

• After a three day strike, the Memphis Teamsters have agreed to go back to work with the understanding that further negotiations will take place; this news comes in the wake of a replacement worker firing a gunshot after saying he felt threatened by the striking workers.
• Picketing at the company’s North Shelby Landfill was officially called off at 10 a.m. yesterday morning.
• The Teamsters agreed to work over the weekend to catch up on missed days.

From the article:

The union made the announcement Wednesday at a news conference on the third day of a strike against the nation's second-largest private waste hauler, Republic Services. The company is also known as Allied Waste Services.

Picketing at the company's North Shelby Landfill was suspended about 10 a.m. Wednesday, according to security guards stationed at the landfill's entrance. That was the site of an incident on Tuesday when a nonstriking worker, who said he felt threatened, fired a gunshot into the air. ...