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.

Sarah Giskin is a Former AFSCME DC 47 & Unity Caucus Member. The following article was written while the strike was on-going.

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.

Three people were killed in two different shootings, including 24-year-old Azir Harris, who was paralyzed in a drive-by seven ...

Jazmine Sullivan and LL Cool J dropped out of the Welcome America concert on the Fourth of July due to a garbage strike.

A marathon negotiation session between the city of Philadelphia and its blue collar workers' union Tuesday has resulted in a ...

Garbage has piled up at dumpsters throughout Philadelphia as the union’s first work stoppage in the city since 1986 has caused a mess.

Philadelphia’s blue-collar municipal workers have entered their second week on strike. The city’s lowest-paid employees, ...

Rapper LL Cool J and R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan did not perform at a Fourth of July festival in Philadelphia in support of a ...