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.

The city and the union’s original proposals show that the two sides also began negotiations with major differences over ...

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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As the clock was nearing midnight last Monday, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker called union president Greg Boulware in a final bid ...

The city of Philadelphia kicked off its Summer Meals program on Wednesday with Mayor Cherelle Parker passing out meals to area kids at Vare Recreation Center. The city is partnering with the ...

Mayor Cherelle Parker, Superintendent Tony Watlington Sr. and former Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Jason Avant hand out meals Wednesday at the Vare Recreation Center in South Philadelphia.

Still, there Parker was, at a North Philly church last week, selling her budget in a town hall and touting with her staff the fact that her government has grown to 29,200 employees — 1,000 more ...