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This decision is in direct violation of the clear will of the rank and file and without any vote. The strike must be renewed ...
Sarah Giskin is a Former AFSCME DC 47 & Unity Caucus Member. The following article was written while the strike was on-going.
Trash piled up across Northeast Philadelphia as AFSCME District Council 33’s citywide strike stretched into its eighth day, ...
Regular trash pickup will resume in the City of Philadelphia on Monday. Trash pickup was just one of several city services ...
The Parker administration won a series of court injunctions requiring striking 911 dispatchers, airport dispatchers, and ...
AFSCME District Council 33 leaders and Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration have reached a tentative contract agreement, ...
The largest municipal workers’ strike in decades in the city of Philadelphia has ended after 9,000 members of AFSCME District ...
Philadelphia's trash workers reached a deal to end their nine-day strike, during which trash piled up around the city.
I really think that the union won the public relations battle over the past week,” says labor historian Francis Ryan.
Philadelphia’s sanitation workers shouldn’t have power to trash the city in pursuit of a labor deal. Dominic Pino is the ...
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 ...