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Philadelphia mayor absent from latest media briefing as city workers strike enters second week
Mayor Cherelle Parker was not at a press conference Monday discussing the ongoing DC 33 strike, which is causing trash to ...
Mayor Cherelle Parker has turned to nonunion city workers and sanitation trainees to help with trash removal during the DC 33 strike
To some, the nonunion city workers are relieving a messy situation. To others, they’re simply scabs caught in difficult ...
Mayor Cherelle Parker wants striking city workers to see the big picture of what she’s done for them. So far, it isn’t working.
Parker is asking AFSCME DC 33 to consider the 5% raises they won last year and her signature housing plan as part of her ...
Philadelphia strike hits Day 7 as latest negotiations between union, Parker administration end without deal
District Council 33 and the Parker administration last negotiated for hours on Saturday, but the two sides weren't able to ...
Philly Mayor Parker says there is still no deal with District Council 33
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker is asking District Council 33 union members to come back to the bargaining table amid ...
Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration and AFCME DC 33 met for the second time since the strike began. There’s still no deal.
Union president Greg Boulware stepped out of a conference room in a community college campus in West Philadelphia and sat ...
'If that means I'm a one-term mayor, then so be it:' Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker puts it all on the line in city workers strike
Mayor Cherelle L. Parker is putting it all on the line. In a fiery news conference on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of ...
Mountains of trash pile up around Philadelphia as city worker strike reaches second week
Piles of trash overflowed in Philadelphia’s streets as a city worker strike entered its second week Tuesday. Contract talks ...
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No, Philly, You Can’t Fire Mayor Parker Amid the Stenchful Strike
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Trash and tension mount in Philadelphia on Day 8 of workers strike, while some seek pop-up haulers
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — As trash and tempers heat up across Philadelphia on Day 8 of a strike by blue-collar city workers Tuesday ...
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Mayor Parker, unwavering in negotiations, dangles holiday pay incentive to end strike
Mayor Cherelle Parker is trying to end the DC33 union worker strike by Fourth of July with both the carrot and stick ...
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Black leaders denounce harassment of first female mayor as Philly strike goes on
As the city and AFSCME District Council 33 return to the negotiating table Tuesday afternoon, some prominent voices in the Black community have raised alarms over insults targeted at Mayor ...