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To some, the nonunion city workers are relieving a messy situation. To others, they’re simply scabs caught in difficult ...
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 ...
Piles of trash overflowed in Philadelphia’s streets as a city worker strike entered its second week Tuesday. Contract talks ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — As trash and tempers heat up across Philadelphia on Day 8 of a strike by blue-collar city workers Tuesday ...
City officials warned against illegal dumping that could slow collection efforts at temporary trash drop-off sites.
Meanwhile, eight dispatchers for the airport's emergency response system were ordered by a judge to return to work.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker delivered impassioned remarks on Thursday as negotiations between the city and the largest blue-collar workers union remain at a standstill.
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker provided an update after the city's largest blue-collar union walked out on negotiations with city officials instead of reaching a new contract on Monday.
The union is asking for a 5% raise per year. Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration has countered with 2.7%, 3% and 3% wage increases over the next three years. Boulware told the Inquirer on Friday ...
As the Philadelphia municipal worker strike enters its second week, so-called “Parker piles” – large collections of garbage ...