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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 ...
NBC News' Emilie Ikeda reports from Philadelphia, where heaps of trash are piling up after thousands of city workers walked off the job, as the city is stuck in a standoff over pay with District ...
An expert on Philadelphia’s municipal workers union talks about how social media has helped the workers on strike get their ...
The city faces mounting trash and tension as a strike by many of the city's blue-collar workers enters its eighth day.