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Mounds of trash continue to pile up in Philadelphia as municipal workers' strike continues
Philadelphia's largest union representing trash collectors, police dispatchers and more — and the Parker administration as ...
Medical Examiner’s Office employees are ordered back to work after bodies piled up in storage during strike
The District Council 33 strike increases the risk that bodies remain in homes and outdoors during hot summer days, conditions ...
Trash lines the streets of Philly as city workers strike: See photos
While police and firefighters are not on strike, many of the city's blue-collar workers, such as trash collectors, are, ...
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Retrieval of dead bodies is being delayed due to strike, Philadelphia officials say
The City of Philadelphia is seeking a court order to get striking medical examiner's office workers back on the job as 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 ...
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Why Philadelphia is Going Viral For Streets That Look Like a Landfill
Libraries are closed, the medical examiner's office has a backlog of bodies, and trash is piling up everywhere.
“We need universal solidarity”: Striking Philadelphia city workers denounce poverty pay, as Democratic mayor seeks injunction
The Parker government’s attack is part of an effort to isolate and weaken the workers under conditions where there is mass ...
Trash and frustrations mount, but talks resume, as the DC 33 strike continues
Dumpsters in Philadelphia are rapidly filled and overflowing, and 200,000 people are a mile or more away from the nearest one ...