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

The deal includes a new three-year contract coupled with the one-year contract extension and a 14% pay increase over the next ...

The city’s blue-collar workers are going back to work. The strike is over. The union and the city reached a deal on a new three-year contract early Wednesday morning.

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

AFSCME District Council 33, representing more than 9,000 city employees from dispatchers to sanitation, was on strike for ...

Trash collection will restart Monday, city officials said Wednesday morning after announcing the new contract for AFSCME ...

Francis Ryan, a professor at Rutgers University, believes District Council 33 got the best deal it could with.

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

Philadelphia city officials and leaders of AFSCME District Council 33 reached a deal early Wednesday morning to end a strike ...

Since July 1, members of AFSCME District Councill 33 have been striking in Philadelphia, yearning for an increased pay.

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