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Mayor Cherelle Parker has turned to nonunion city workers and sanitation trainees to help with trash removal during the DC 33 strike
To some, the nonunion city workers are relieving a messy situation. To others, they’re simply scabs caught in difficult ...
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No, Philly, You Can’t Fire Mayor Parker Amid the Stenchful Strike
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How Philadelphia’s current sanitation strike differs from past labor disputes in the city
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 ...
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 ...
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Philadelphia strike: Parker says District Council 33 refused city's offer to continue negotiations
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker said District Council 33 refused the city's offer to continue contract negotiations on ...
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What to know about Cherelle Parker, Philadelphia's first female mayor
Parker said she will be "a get-it-done mayor." Cherelle Parker is literally one in a hundred after being elected Philadelphia's first female mayor. In a historic vote, Parker became the City ...
A Trashy Fourth of July in Philadelphia
A city worker strike puts a stop to regular garbage collection.
No, Mayor Parker didn’t give herself ‘a 9% raise’ — but she did dole out big raises to aides
At rallies for AFSCME District Council 33’s striking workers, members say they’re not asking for anything more than Mayor ...