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Free Library branches are closed amid the DC 33 strike
Almost all Free Library branches shut down Tuesday, as librarians resisted crossing picket lines. Most other library workers ...
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Fire crews battle flames at 2 separate strike-related trash sites
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Fire Department was called to two fires at two separate trash dumping sites set up ...
What happens to trash pickup in Philadelphia with city workers on strike? What to know as DC 33 strike starts
Sanitation workers in Philadelphia could go on strike as soon as Tuesday, stopping regular residential trash pickup in the ...
DC 33 made concessions in 1992. Decades of resentment since led to Philadelphia’s current city worker strike.
Many AFSCME DC 33 members have been itching for the union to take a dramatic stand against the city ever since then-Mayor ...
Two striking Philadelphia municipal workers struck by vehicle overnight; city’s Fourth of July festival upended by strike
The strike has revealed the massive chasm that exists throughout the city of Philadelphia between the working population and ...
Philadelphia's largest blue-collar workers' union goes on strike for first time in nearly 40 years
Philadelphia's largest city workers' union is on strike for the first time in nearly 40 years on Tuesday after a deal ...
2 DC 33 workers struck by vehicle while picketing at Philadelphia sanitation yard
An SUV jumped a curb and hit two workers picketing outside a Philadelphia sanitation yard in the DC 33 strike, according to ...
Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration and AFSCME 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 ...