While city workers seeking livable wages and residents needing basic city services are facing difficult situations, there is another group of Philadelphians for whom the ongoing American Federation of State,

Striking city workers are joining picket lines near Philadelphia City Hall, public libraries and other worksites as nearly 10,000 unionized employees walked off the job in search of better pay

Heaps of trash spilled out of dumpsters across Philadelphia as the District Council 33 strike dragged into its second day. Sanitation workers from Philadelphia's largest union were among the 9,000 members who walked off the job on Tuesday after failing to reach a new contract with the city.