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Mayor Cherelle Parker wants striking city workers to see the big picture of what she’s done for them. So far, it isn’t working.
As the clock was nearing midnight last Monday, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker called union president Greg Boulware in a final bid ...
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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 ...
Philadelphia strike at the crossroads: Workers must form rank-and-file committees to take the offensive!
It must be said plainly: the strike is in danger as long as the AFSCME bureaucrats retain control. Victory can be achieved, ...
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 ...