Another striking for more than a week, members of AFSCME District Council 33 agreed to a new deal with Philadelphia, ending the trash strike.

Philadelphia’s first major city worker strike since 1986 lasted eight days and four hours before Mayor Cherelle L. Parker and ...

Garbage has piled up at dumpsters throughout Philadelphia as the union’s first work stoppage in the city since 1986 has caused quite a mess.

The city’s blue-collar workers are going back to work. The strike is over. The union and the city reached a deal on a new three-year contract early Wednesday morning.

A series of new and threatened injunctions, amid resumption of contract talks behind a wall of secrecy, suggest the city and ...

The city’s contract negotiations with AFSCME District Council 33 show no signs of a deal as trash piled along city streets ...

Philadelphia’s blue-collar municipal workers have entered their second week on strike. The city’s lowest-paid employees, ...

As the Philadelphia municipal worker strike enters its second week, so-called “Parker piles” – large collections of garbage ...

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 ...

As the District Council 33 strike enters day 8, officials are warning that illegal dumping is not an option. Throughout the ...