When over 200 city workers were laid off in September 1938, city workers called a weeklong sanitation strike. Street battles raged in West Philadelphia when strikers blocked police-escorted trash ...

As the Philadelphia municipal worker strike enters its second week, so-called “Parker piles” – large collections of garbage ...

Philadelphia faces mounting trash and tension as a strike by many of the city's blue-collar workers enters its eighth day ...

City officials warned against illegal dumping that could slow collection efforts at temporary trash drop-off sites.

The city and the union’s original proposals show that the two sides also began negotiations with major differences over ...