The DC 33 strike may be over with a new contract ratified, but Philadelphia residents are still reporting trash troubles.

The Philadelphia Sanitation Department says it's running behind on recycling pickup following the District Council 33 strike ...

Trash collection in the city of Philadelphia returned on Monday for the first time in nearly two weeks after the end of ...

Striking city workers are joining picket lines near Philadelphia City Hall, public libraries and other worksites as nearly 10 ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A union representing thousands of city workers in Philadelphia and the city have reached a deal to end a more than weeklong strike that halted residential curbside trash pickup and ...

The Philadelphia municipal workers strike ended after eight days in the early hours of July 9, 2025. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 33 union’s 9,000 ...

AFSCME District Council 33, representing more than 9,000 city employees from dispatchers to sanitation, was on strike for eight days.

Trash continues to pile up along Philadelphia’s streets as a union strike by sanitation workers and other municipal employees enters its eighth day, following failed negotiations with the city for ...

An expert on Philadelphia’s municipal workers union talks about how social media helped the workers on strike to get their message out.

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 ...

AFSCME District Council 33 went on strike at midnight June 30. The strike ended with promises of pay raises for the city's ...

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