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Philadelphia's largest municipal union reaches tentative deal with Mayor Cherelle Parker, ending 8-day strike affecting 9,000 ...
Philadelphia's first major city worker strike since 1986 lasted eight days and four hours before Mayor Cherelle L. Parker and ...
Nine thousand city workers in Philadelphia have been on strike for higher pay. Sanitation workers, 911 dispatchers and other municipal employees have been on strike for days.
SAG-AFTRA members have voted to ratify the new interactive media agreement negotiated after an 11-month strike against video ...
Philadelphia's 10,000 striking city workers return after a 14% wage deal ends a 9-day walkout that halted trash pickup, ...
Sarah Giskin is a Former AFSCME DC 47 & Unity Caucus Member. The following article was written while the strike was on-going.
Sorry, rats. The "Parker piles" of trash found around the city are about to disappear. Philadelphia’s first major city worker ...
AFSCME District Council 33, representing more than 9,000 city employees from dispatchers to sanitation, was on strike for ...
The largest municipal workers’ strike in decades in the city of Philadelphia has ended after 9,000 members of AFSCME District ...
I really think that the union won the public relations battle over the past week,” says labor historian Francis Ryan.