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Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker is expected to join municipal officials to discuss the new contract with the District Council 47, which represents thousands of white-collar workers at City Hall, ...
Labor expert Francis Ryan puts the now-ended DC 33 work stoppage into context, both historically — and for Philadelphia's future ...
Philadelphia's regular trash pickup has resumed as sanitation workers return to duty and vote on a new labor contract.
When over 200 city workers were laid off in September 1938, city workers called a week-long sanitation strike. Street battles raged in West Philadelphia when strikers blocked police-escorted trash ...
AFSCME District Council 47 and Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, ...
The contract agreement, coupled with an extension to the last deal, would increase the pay of the city's white collar workers ...
The union represents administrators at City Hall, the PPA and the housing authority. The results of its vote, which concluded ...
Normal trash pickup resumed in Philadelphia on Monday after District Council 33 reached a tentative agreement on a new contract last week.
Philadelphia let out a collective sigh of relief on Monday as curbside trash pickup resumed in the city following the week-long District Council 33 strike that saw piles of trash grown on streets and ...
With the strike in her rearview mirror, Parker reflected on the most tumultuous eight days of her administration in an ...
Regular trash and recycling pickup resumes in Philadelphia on Monday, July 14, after the service was suspended for several weeks due to the District Council 33 strike, which has ended ...
The TA was announced in order to break the powerful eight day work stoppage, the largest municipal strike in the city in ...