Nine thousand city workers in Philadelphia have been on strike for higher pay. Sanitation workers, 911 dispatchers and other municipal employees have been on strike for days.

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

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

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

Three people were killed in two different shootings, including 24-year-old Azir Harris, who was paralyzed in a drive-by seven ...

Jazmine Sullivan and LL Cool J dropped out of the Welcome America concert on the Fourth of July due to a garbage strike.

Garbage has piled up at dumpsters throughout Philadelphia as the union’s first work stoppage in the city since 1986 has caused a mess.

Philadelphia’s blue-collar municipal workers have entered their second week on strike. The city’s lowest-paid employees, ...

Rapper LL Cool J and R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan did not perform at a Fourth of July festival in Philadelphia in support of a ...

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LL COOL J issued a statement on why he dropped out of the July 4 concert, siding with the striking workers who are demanding ...

It’s admirable that the hip-hop icon has chosen to stand with District Council 33, understanding that the negotiations are ...