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Mayor Cherelle Parker has turned to nonunion city workers and sanitation trainees to help with trash removal during the DC 33 strike
To some, the nonunion city workers are relieving a messy situation. To others, they’re simply scabs caught in difficult ...
Mayor Cherelle Parker wants striking city workers to see the big picture of what she’s done for them. So far, it isn’t working.
Parker is asking AFSCME DC 33 to consider the 5% raises they won last year and her signature housing plan as part of her ...
Philadelphia strike hits Day 7 as latest negotiations between union, Parker administration end without deal
District Council 33 and the Parker administration last negotiated for hours on Saturday, but the two sides weren't able to ...
Negotiations resume between AFSCME District Council 33, Mayor Parker's administration on Day 5 of strike
No deal was reached between the striking AFSCME District Council 33 and Mayor Cherelle Parker's administration after ...
Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration and AFCME DC 33 met for the second time since the strike began. There’s still no deal.
Union president Greg Boulware stepped out of a conference room in a community college campus in West Philadelphia and sat ...
Philadelphians take to social media to gripe about the DC 33 strike and the resulting ‘Parker piles’
On any given summer day, Philadelphia’s fragrance can be a little ... ripe. Add an almost week-old strike by city employees, ...
Philly Mayor Parker says there is still no deal with District Council 33
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker is asking District Council 33 union members to come back to the bargaining table amid ...
Trash and tension mount in Philadelphia on Day 8 of workers strike, while some seek pop-up haulers
As trash and tempers heat up across Philadelphia on Day 8 of a strike by blue-collar city workers Tuesday, some residents and small business owners are hiring pop-up hauling ...
Tensions rising while trash piles are growing on Day 8 of strike by Philly workers
Some residents and small businesses are hiring pop-up haulers to clear their blocks of trash, while mostly supporting the ...
How Philadelphia’s current sanitation strike differs from past labor disputes in the city
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 ...
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No, Philly, You Can’t Fire Mayor Parker Amid the Stenchful Strike
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