The tentative deal between the city and AFSCME District Council 47 still needs to be approved by union members. It includes smaller pay raises than what the union initially sought.

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker joined municipal officials to discuss the new contract with District Council 47, which ...

Labor expert Francis Ryan puts the now-ended DC 33 work stoppage into context, both historically — and for Philadelphia's future ...

Philadelphia's regular trash pickup has resumed as sanitation workers return to duty and vote on a new labor contract.

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

The strikes are all the more significant given the strike earlier this month by 9,000 Philadelphia city workers, including ...

State leaders urge Republic Services to finalize contract with striking Teamsters as uncollected garbage piles up in Massachusetts communities and other states across the country.

The Trump administration’s constant trashing of federal workers amounts to an attack on unions at a time when government employees are highly unionized, but only 6 percent of private sector workers ...

With the strike in her rearview mirror, Parker reflected on the most tumultuous eight days of her administration in an ...

Thousands of Alpha Phi Alpha members will travel to Philadelphia to take part in its national convention, aimed at evolving ...

The sellout of the strike is so naked and blatant that even the corporate press, which usually ignores such matters out of ...