Philadelphia trash workers reach union deal
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Philadelphia's largest municipal union reaches tentative deal with Mayor Cherelle Parker, ending 8-day strike affecting 9,000 workers and city services.
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Negotiations between the Parker administration and AFSCME District Council 33, Philadelphia's largest municipal workers' union, ended over the weekend without a deal as the strike entered its seventh day Monday.
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 wagons that were aiming to collect trash with workers hired to replace the strikers.
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Here's a timeline breaking down everything we know so far about the labor talks between District Council 33 and the city of.
The strike by blue-collar workers' union DC33 is now in its sixth day, and it appears it will be several more days before a new round of talks happens