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Labor expert Francis Ryan puts the now-ended DC 33 work stoppage into context, both historically — and for Philadelphia's future ...
Philadelphia's regular trash pickup has resumed as sanitation workers return to duty and vote on a new labor contract.
Philadelphia’s first major city workers strike since 1986 lasted eight days and four hours before Mayor Cherelle L. Parker ...
Some unions had to balance supporting the striking AFSCME DC 33 workers with maintaining their relationships with Mayor Cherelle Parker.
As work stoppages spread, the Teamsters’ president says a waste disposal company is at “war” with sanitation workers.
Philadelphia's largest labor union, AFSCME District Council 33, is getting ready to cast votes to decide if a new contract will be ratified.
Workers will have to vote on the deal reached on the ninth day of the Philadelphia strike before it is official.
Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) District Council 33, Philadelphia’s ...
A union representing thousands of city workers in Philadelphia and the city have reached a deal to end a more than weeklong ...
Sarah Giskin is a Former AFSCME DC 47 & Unity Caucus Member. The following article was written while the strike was on-going.
AFSCME District Council 33, representing more than 9,000 city employees from dispatchers to sanitation, was on strike for ...
Philadelphia's weeklong city workers' strike has ended with a tentative agreement between the union and the city.