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AFSCME District Council 33, representing more than 9,000 city employees from dispatchers to sanitation, was on strike for ...
This decision is in direct violation of the clear will of the rank and file and without any vote. The strike must be renewed ...
Sorry, rats. The “Parker piles” are about to disappear. Philadelphia’s first major city workers strike since 1986 lasted ...
Francis Ryan, a professor at Rutgers University, believes District Council 33 got the best deal it could with.
An expert on Philadelphia’s municipal workers union talks about how social media helped the workers on strike to get their ...
The deal includes a new three-year contract coupled with the one-year contract extension and a 14% pay increase over the next ...
A series of new and threatened injunctions, amid resumption of contract talks behind a wall of secrecy, suggest the city and ...
AFSCME District Council 33 went on strike at midnight June 30. The strike ended with promises of pay raises for the city's ...
Many city services are still coming back online a day after a deal was reached to end AFSCME DC 33's strike. Jan Carabeo reports.
The largest municipal workers’ strike in decades in the city of Philadelphia has ended after 9,000 members of AFSCME District ...
Garbage has piled up at dumpsters throughout Philadelphia as the union’s first work stoppage in the city since 1986 has caused a mess.
Philadelphia city officials and leaders of AFSCME District Council 33 reached a deal early Wednesday morning to end a strike ...