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Sarah Giskin is a Former AFSCME DC 47 & Unity Caucus Member. The following article was written while the strike was on-going.
Philadelphia’s sanitation workers strike ended early Wednesday after more than a week with the announcement of a tentative ...
Trash piled up across Northeast Philadelphia as AFSCME District Council 33’s citywide strike stretched into its eighth day, ...
In the wee hours of Wednesday, District Council 33 officials and the City of Philadelphia reached a tentative contract agreement. The union has yet to vote on it.
A union representing thousands of city workers in Philadelphia and the city have reached a deal to end a more than weeklong ...
In the wee hours of Wednesday, District Council 33 officials and the City of Philadelphia reached a tentative contract ...
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.
The largest municipal workers’ strike in decades in the city of Philadelphia has ended after 9,000 members of AFSCME District ...
Mayor Cherelle L. Parker and Greg Boulware, president of AFSCME District Council 33, reached an agreement early Wednesday, ...
Philadelphia's trash workers reached a deal to end their nine-day strike, during which trash piled up around the city.
I really think that the union won the public relations battle over the past week,” says labor historian Francis Ryan.