Growing piles of trash on the streets of Philadelphia brought the strike into clear view for city residents.

AFSCME and Philadelphia officials confirmed the strike has ended, though the union must still ratify the terms of the deal ...

Sorry, rats. The “Parker piles” are about to disappear. Philadelphia’s first major city workers strike since 1986 lasted ...

Philadelphia's first major city worker strike since 1986 lasted eight days and four hours before Mayor Cherelle L. Parker and ...

The new contract contains a miserly 9 percent wage increase, spread out over three years. This is only one percent better ...

Sarah Giskin is a Former AFSCME DC 47 & Unity Caucus Member. The following article was written while the strike was on-going.

Trash piled up across Northeast Philadelphia as AFSCME District Council 33’s citywide strike stretched into its eighth day, ...

I really think that the union won the public relations battle over the past week,” says labor historian Francis Ryan.

AFSCME District Council 33 went on strike at midnight June 30. The strike ended with promises of pay raises for the city's blue collar workers.

After eight days, the city of Philadelphia and its blue collar workers' union reached a tentative contract agreement.

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 ...