But while this strike hasn’t reached that length, its most visible effects — the so-called “Parker Piles” of trash at the ...

Philadelphia faces mounting trash and tension as a strike by many of the city's blue-collar workers enters its eighth day.

When over 200 city workers were laid off in September 1938, city workers called a weeklong sanitation strike. Street battles raged in West Philadelphia when strikers blocked police-escorted trash ...