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 ...

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

Philadelphia faces mounting trash and tension as a strike by many of the city's blue-collar workers enters its eighth day ...

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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Parker is asking AFSCME DC 33 to consider the 5% raises they won last year and her signature housing plan as part of her ...

Union president Greg Boulware stepped out of a conference room in a community college campus in West Philadelphia and sat ...

Mayor Cherelle Parker ’s much anticipated housing plan is finally coming into focus. Philadelphia’s top executive revealed new details about what she called “the largest single investment in ...

Mayor Cherelle Parker on Monday unveiled her comprehensive, $2 billion housing plan, which includes providing rental assistance to middle-income workers, a new fixed-rate mortgage program and ...

Mayor Cherelle Parker gives a special housing address Monday in City Council chambers, where she unveiled a $2 billion plan that would include building 13,000 new houses in Philadelphia.