Sorry, rats. The “Parker piles” are about to disappear. Philadelphia’s first major city workers strike since 1986 lasted eight days and four hours before Mayor Cherelle L. Parker and Greg Boulware, president of the American Federation of State,

The deal includes a new three-year contract coupled with the one-year contract extension and a 14% pay increase over the next four years.

Members of District Council 33, which represents over 9,000 city workers, have walked out of negotiations for a new contract with the city, NBC10 has learned. If no contract is reached, membership ...

DC 33's worker strike enters its second week with no deal in sight with Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker.

District Council 33, Philadelphia’s largest blue-collar union, will possibly go on strike as union leaders walked out of negotiations just hours before the strike deadline and

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

As the strike carries into a second week, the city has relied on managers to fill essential jobs at Philadelphia's water facilities, paying them more handsomely than their DC 33 counterparts.

Amid the District Council 33 strike and negotiations with the City of Philadelphia, the union is seeking non-monetary donations.