The new contract contains a miserly 9 percent wage increase, spread out over three years. This is only one percent better ...

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 ...

Trash piled up across Northeast Philadelphia as AFSCME District Council 33’s citywide strike stretched into its eighth day, ...

Trash collection will restart Monday, city officials said Wednesday morning after announcing the new contract for AFSCME ...

The Parker administration won a series of court injunctions requiring striking 911 dispatchers, airport dispatchers, and ...

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.

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

Philadelphia city officials and leaders of AFSCME District Council 33 reached a deal early Wednesday morning to end a strike ...

Members of AFSCME District Council 33, Philadelphia's largest municipal union, reached a tentative new contract agreement ...