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 ...

Some residents and small businesses are hiring pop-up haulers to clear their blocks of trash, while mostly supporting the ...

As trash and tempers heat up across Philadelphia on Day 8 of a strike by blue-collar city workers Tuesday, some residents and small business owners are hiring pop-up hauling ...

Piles of trash overflowed in Philadelphia’s streets as a city worker strike entered its second week Tuesday. Contract talks ...

Philadelphia’s blue-collar municipal workers have entered their second week on strike. The city’s lowest-paid employees, ...

As the Philadelphia municipal worker strike enters its second week, so-called “Parker piles” – large collections of garbage ...

To some, the nonunion city workers are relieving a messy situation. To others, they’re simply scabs caught in difficult ...

City officials warned against illegal dumping that could slow collection efforts at temporary trash drop-off sites.

District Council 33 and the Parker administration last negotiated for hours on Saturday, but the two sides weren't able to ...

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