Growing piles of trash on the streets of Philadelphia brought the strike into clear view for city residents.

AFSCME and Philadelphia officials confirmed the strike has ended, though the union must still ratify the terms of the deal ...

Philadelphia's largest municipal union reaches tentative deal with Mayor Cherelle Parker, ending 8-day strike affecting 9,000 ...

Sorry, rats. The “Parker piles” are about to disappear. Philadelphia’s first major city workers strike since 1986 lasted ...

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.

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

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

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.

Philadelphia’s sanitation workers shouldn’t have power to trash the city in pursuit of a labor deal. Dominic Pino is the ...