Philadelphians faced with the ongoing strike was a way to beat the heat. The city planned on opening close to 60 pools this summer season, but some gates were locked when lifeguards joined the picket ...

The strike in Philadelphia involving the city's largest municipal workers' union is over. Here's what to know about the ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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

The largest municipal workers’ strike in decades in the city of Philadelphia has ended after 9,000 members of AFSCME District ...

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 ...