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

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

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.

I really think that the union won the public relations battle over the past week,” says labor historian Francis Ryan.

The Parker administration won a series of court injunctions requiring striking 911 dispatchers, airport dispatchers, and ...

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

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

Members of AFSCME District Council 33, Philadelphia's largest municipal union, reached a tentative new contract agreement ...

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

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