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 ...

District Council 33 and the Parker administration last negotiated for hours on Saturday, but the two sides weren't able to ...

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As the clock was nearing midnight last Monday, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker called union president Greg Boulware in a final bid ...