SEATTLE, Wash. -- Nearly 3,000 Waste Management customers in the Puget Sound area may not see trash pick-ups today, with union recycling drivers facing a strike or company lock-out.

The drivers are reporting for work today, after refusing to look at the company's latest contract offer over the weekend.

However, King 5 News reports there are new security measures in place at a Seattle yard where recycling trucks sit, including barbed wire fences and extra security guards.

Waste Management has brought in non-union drivers in the past few days for training, in preparation for a work stoppage.

If there is a strike or lockout, it will affect more than just recycling.  Teamsters Local 174, representing garbage collectors, says it will not cross picket lines.

Contract talks have dragged on for the past five months between Waste Management and Teamsters Local 117, the union representing drivers who haul away recyclables.

The union says its workers do the same job as garbage collectors, but get paid much less.

Waste Management says its best and last offer includes a four percent yearly wage increase and a two-thousand-dollar bonus.