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, avoiding the potential for a second municipal workers’ strike in the span of ...

Residential pick-up crews will temporarily get $50 more a week in return for starting their shifts at 5 a.m. As for permanent wage increases – nothing.