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Philadelphia’s city worker strike is over, but services aren’t fully back yet. Here’s when trash pickup, pools, and other ...
Philadelphia's first major city worker strike since 1986 lasted eight days and four hours before Mayor Cherelle L. Parker and ...
The new contract contains a miserly 9 percent wage increase, spread out over three years. This is only one percent better ...
Philadelphia’s city worker strike is officially over after Mayor Cherelle Parker reached a tentative agreement with AFSCME ...
Sarah Giskin is a Former AFSCME DC 47 & Unity Caucus Member. The following article was written while the strike was on-going.
Trash piled up across Northeast Philadelphia as AFSCME District Council 33’s citywide strike stretched into its eighth day, ...
AFSCME District Council 33, representing more than 9,000 city employees from dispatchers to sanitation, was on strike for ...
Members of AFSCME District Council 33, Philadelphia's largest municipal union, reached a tentative new contract agreement ...
Trash collection will restart Monday, city officials said Wednesday morning after announcing the new contract for AFSCME ...
Francis Ryan, a professor at Rutgers University, believes District Council 33 got the best deal it could with.
The largest municipal workers’ strike in decades in the city of Philadelphia has ended after 9,000 members of AFSCME District ...