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The latest court order concerns airport emergency response workers. In the union's last major work stoppage in 1986, ...
Philadelphia faces mounting trash and tension as a strike by many of the city's blue-collar workers enters its eighth day.
Piles of trash overflowed in Philadelphia’s streets as a city worker strike entered its second week Tuesday. Contract talks ...
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 ...
Philadelphia’s blue-collar municipal workers have entered their second week on strike. The city’s lowest-paid employees, ...
As the Philadelphia municipal worker strike enters its second week, so-called “Parker piles” – large collections of garbage ...
To some, the nonunion city workers are relieving a messy situation. To others, they’re simply scabs caught in difficult ...
According to MIT, Philadelphia's striking workers earn more than $2,000 less than the living wage for a single adult in the ...
District Council 33 and the Parker administration last negotiated for hours on Saturday, but the two sides weren't able to ...
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Mayor Cherelle L. Parker is putting it all on the line. In a fiery news conference on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Parker made clear on Thursday that she wasn’t ready to capitulate in ...