Sarah Giskin is a Former AFSCME DC 47 & Unity Caucus Member. The following article was written while the strike was on-going.

Trash piled up across Northeast Philadelphia as AFSCME District Council 33’s citywide strike stretched into its eighth day, ...

Francis Ryan, a professor at Rutgers University and a labor historian, has been researching Philadelphia unions for years. He ...

In the wee hours of Wednesday, District Council 33 officials and the City of Philadelphia reached a tentative contract ...

AFSCME District Council 33, representing more than 9,000 city employees from dispatchers to sanitation, was on strike for ...

Francis Ryan, a professor at Rutgers University, believes District Council 33 got the best deal it could with.

Mayor Cherelle L. Parker and Greg Boulware, president of AFSCME District Council 33, reached an agreement early Wednesday, ...

I really think that the union won the public relations battle over the past week,” says labor historian Francis Ryan.

The Parker administration won a series of court injunctions requiring striking 911 dispatchers, airport dispatchers, and ...

Dozens of temporary drop-off sites will close immediately to allow cleanup, but residents can take garbage to six sanitation ...

Workers will have to vote on the deal reached on the ninth day of the Philadelphia strike before it is official.

Despite a deal to end the strike by members of DC33 in Philadelphia, regular trash collection will not begin right away.