The deal includes a new three-year contract coupled with the one-year contract extension and a 14% pay increase over the next four years.

The largest municipal workers’ strike in decades in the city of Philadelphia has ended after 9,000 members of AFSCME District Council 33, who are primarily sanitation workers, walked off the job a week ago.

Negotiations are set to continue in the ongoing DC 33 strike in Philadelphia, as trash piles up at several dump sites meant to alleviate residents' garbage cans in lieu of weekly trash pickup. Ross DiMattei breaks down what the city and the union are saying about labor talks before they get back to the negotiating table on Tuesday.

Philadelphia city officials and leaders of AFSCME District Council 33 reached a deal early Wednesday morning to end a strike that had halted a number of services for more than a week.

Between 1,200 and 1,300 sanitation workers are part of the AFSCME strike for higher wages and other improvements. Private contractors are handling trash drop-offs during the strike.

It must be said plainly: the strike is in danger as long as the AFSCME bureaucrats retain control. Victory can be achieved, but only if workers take control over the strike themselves.