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Medical Examiner’s Office employees are ordered back to work after bodies piled up in storage during strike
The District Council 33 strike increases the risk that bodies remain in homes and outdoors during hot summer days, conditions ...
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‘It’s embarrassing, and it’s shocking’: Residents frustrated by continuing strike
The ongoing strike will continue to affect city services such as trash pickup, emergency services and libraries.
Trash lines the streets of Philly as city workers strike: See photos
While police and firefighters are not on strike, many of the city's blue-collar workers, such as trash collectors, are, ...
District Council 33 is on strike. Here’s what the union does and what is impacted.
AFSCME District Council 33 represents a wide swath of city employees who perform manual labor and skilled trades.
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‘I’m giving residents options’: Ya Fav Trashman sees strike dilemma from both sides
The former municipal sanitation worker turned clean streets advocate has continued picking up trash, a decision that has ...
District Council 33 goes on strike
District Council 33, Philadelphia's largest union, will go on strike after not reaching a deal with the City of Philadelphia.
‘We are dug in': Union head sees no end to strike as Philly mayor calls for new talks
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker says union members refused to negotiate an end to the city workers strike on Thursday, but ...
No, Mayor Parker didn’t give herself ‘a 9% raise’ — but she did dole out big raises to aides
Mayor Cherelle L. Parker rejected a false claim from striking workers that she gave herself a 9% pay raise – although her pay ...