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To some, the nonunion city workers are relieving a messy situation. To others, they’re simply scabs caught in difficult ...
According to MIT, Philadelphia's striking workers earn more than $2,000 less than the living wage for a single adult in the ...
Piles of trash overflowed in Philadelphia’s streets as a city worker strike entered its second week Tuesday. Contract talks ...
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 ...
City officials warned against illegal dumping that could slow collection efforts at temporary trash drop-off sites.
Philadelphia faces mounting trash and tension as a strike by many of the city's blue-collar workers enters its eighth day.
Meanwhile, eight dispatchers for the airport's emergency response system were ordered by a judge to return to work.
As the Philadelphia municipal worker strike enters its second week, so-called “Parker piles” – large collections of garbage ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker delivered impassioned remarks on Thursday as negotiations between the city and the largest blue-collar workers union remain at a standstill.
The union is asking for a 5% raise per year. Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration has countered with 2.7%, 3% and 3% wage increases over the next three years. Boulware told the Inquirer on Friday ...
As the Philadelphia municipal worker strike enters its second week, so-called “Parker piles” – large collections of garbage ...