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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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Talks resume, trash piles up on 2nd day of District Council 33 strike
Talks resumed Wednesday afternoon between Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration and AFSCME District Council 33, on the ...
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, ...
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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.
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 ...
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Negotiations between Philly leaders, striking blue collar union end without deal
Negotiations between the City of Philadelphia and members of the blue-collar workers' union, AFSCME District Council 33, that ...
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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 ...
Philly municipal worker strike postponed a sheriff sale. More delays are possible.
The July 1 court order, signed by Daniel J. Anders, a Common Pleas Court administrative judge, delays that day’s sale until ...