Gov. Maura Healey ought to call on President Donald Trump to end the weeks long garbage pickup strike that has bedeviled 14 communities, including Arlington where the governor lives.

If Trump can bring warring Armenia and Azerbaijan together, let alone Vladimir Putin and Volodymir Zelensky, surely he can bring Republic Services, the contractor, and the striking rubbish collectors of Teamsters local 25 to the table.

However, it is something that Healey has failed to do as sunbaked and rain-soaked trash has piled up in the communities even as Republic has brought in nonunion workers to do the job.

She might even have brought in Republican former Gov. Charlie Baker to help out with some muscle. Baker, after all, stands at six feet, six inches tall compared to Healey’s five feet four inches.

Officials at Republic won’t even return Healey’s phone calls.

What is worse is that Healey admitted that Republic, a company doing a lot of business in the state, won’t even take her calls.

So, she should have called Trump, who talks with everybody, for help. Or even Baker.

Baker might even have brought the warring factions into the governor’s office and banged some heads until an agreement was reached.

After all, Swampscott, where Baker lives, like Arlington, is one of the 14 communities affected.

The other communities are Peabody, Manchester-by-the Sea, Gloucester, Wakefield, Marblehead, Malden, Beverly, Danvers, North Reading, Lynnfield, Watertown and Canton.

But Healey, rather than sending over a couple of burly state troopers to Republic to demand respect and answers, wrote a letter instead.

In her August 11 letter to Republic Services President Jon Vander Ark, Healey whined, “As my attempts to speak with you directly have gone unanswered, I am now writing to express my deep concern and profound disappointment regarding the ongoing labor strike involving Republic Services workers in Massachusetts.

“Your company’s failure to resolve or even meaningfully address this prolonged strike is unacceptable,” she wrote.

Citing potential health problems as uncollected garbage piles up on the streets, Healey said, “The time for delay and posturing is over. It is time. to resolve this now.”

There is no record of any response from Republic, but it Is most likely her letter got the same response as her phone calls.

Interestingly, Healey did not make similar phone calls to the Teamsters  or write them  a letter.

Republic has offered the 450 striking workers a 43% pay increase over the next five years, with a 16% immediate bump. This could, according to Republic, pay drivers $140,000 a year by the end of the contract.

The union maintains that the offer does not compare to pay packages of other trash companies and that Republic refuses to allow union members to switch to union-provided health care.

Issues aside, what stands out is the lack of input influence or concern to the trash problem by other Democrat offices holders in one party state Massachusetts.

For instance, politicians like Sen. Eddie Markey and U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, like Healey, spend endless hours thrashing Trump. But they have nothing to say about the trash piling up in the communities they represent.

The trash goes uncollected in Malden, where Markey campaigns from, while it is collected at his real home in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Clark, who is the Democrat minority whip in the House, lives in Revere, where the trash is collected. But she represents Arlington, Healey’s hometown, where it is not.

There is truth in trash. Nobody care what you say about Trump if you can’t collect the trash.

Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com.

Gov. Maura Healey (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald, File)
A pair of Republic dumpsters sit stuffed to the top as a strike by Teamsters working for the company continues. (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald, File)