The work stoppage involving District Council 33 and the City of Philadelphia is OVER,” Mayor Cherelle Parker announced on ...

A union representing thousands of city workers in Philadelphia and the city have reached a deal to end a more than weeklong ...

The new contract contains a miserly 9 percent wage increase, spread out over three years. This is only one percent better ...

Nine thousand city workers in Philadelphia have been on strike for higher pay. Sanitation workers, 911 dispatchers and other municipal employees have been on strike for days.

The more than 60 temporary trash drop-off sites in use during the strike in Philadelphia are being shut down and cleaned up, ...

This decision is in direct violation of the clear will of the rank and file and without any vote. The strike must be renewed ...

Sarah Giskin is a Former AFSCME DC 47 & Unity Caucus Member. The following article was written while the strike was on-going.

Philadelphia’s sanitation workers strike ended early Wednesday after more than a week with the announcement of a tentative ...

Sorry, rats. The "Parker piles" of trash found around the city are about to disappear. Philadelphia’s first major city worker ...

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 ...