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The strike in Philadelphia involving the city's largest municipal workers' union is over. Here's what to know about the tentative agreement.
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, ...
Members of AFSCME District Council 33, Philadelphia's largest municipal union, reached a tentative new contract agreement ...
AFSCME District Council 33 leaders and Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration have reached a tentative contract agreement, ...
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.
The Parker administration won a series of court injunctions requiring striking 911 dispatchers, airport dispatchers, and ...
Philadelphia’s sanitation workers shouldn’t have power to trash the city in pursuit of a labor deal. Dominic Pino is the ...
AFSCME District Council 33, representing more than 9,000 city employees from dispatchers to sanitation, was on strike for ...
Despite a deal to end the strike by members of DC33 in Philadelphia, regular trash collection will not begin right away.