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Philadelphia municipal workers condemn union isolation while details emerge of tentative agreement for white collar workers
Philadelphia’s municipal workers are voicing anger at their unions, AFSCME District Councils 33 and 47, charging that union ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
How the AFSCME DC 33 strike exposed fault lines in Philly’s labor movement
Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO president Danny Bauder, who was elected in 2022, went into office with the goal of making the ...
Philadelphia Strike Ends: Race & Inequality at Center of Municipal Workers’ Fight for a Fair Wage
The largest municipal workers’ strike in decades in the city of Philadelphia has ended after 9,000 members of AFSCME District ...