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How Mayor Parker’s administration approached contract talks — and eventually a tentative agreement — with AFSCME DC 47
The deal, which must be ratified by members, will cost approximately $92 million over the course of five years.
Philadelphia strike over as DC 33, city reach tentative deal; trash pickup to resume Monday
AFSCME District Council 33, representing more than 9,000 city employees from dispatchers to sanitation, was on strike for ...
As voting begins on sellout contract for Philadelphia city workers, Mayor Parker declares AFSCME bureaucrats “are my people”
The TA was announced in order to break the powerful eight day work stoppage, the largest municipal strike in the city in ...
Philadelphia trash strike ends after garbage piles up for days on city streets
AFSCME District Council 33 went on strike at midnight June 30. The strike ended with promises of pay raises for the city's ...
Why did 9,000 of Philadelphia’s municipal workers go on strike?
A tentative agreement has put a stop to the piles of trash left by striking sanitation workers, but whether union members ...
[UPDATE] AFSCME announces sellout deal to shut down Philadelphia city workers strike: Workers must organize to override union’s back to work order!
A series of new and threatened injunctions, amid resumption of contract talks behind a wall of secrecy, suggest the city and ...
What's next for Philadelphia after union workers strike ends?
Many city services are still coming back online a day after a deal was reached to end AFSCME DC 33's strike. Jan Carabeo ...