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No, Philly, You Can’t Fire Mayor Parker Amid the Stenchful Strike
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LL Cool J and Jazmine Sullivan drop out of Philadelphia 4th of July concert in solidarity with ongoing workers’ strike
LL Cool J and Jazmine Sullivan are standing in solidarity with Philadelphia workers on strike as they fight for fair wages.
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Philadelphia’s trash crisis reaches breaking point
Philadelphia municipal workers strike reaches day 7 with failed negotiations, creating massive trash piles dubbed ...
Philadelphia Is On Day 7 Of A Sanitation Strike During A Heat Wave And Trash Mountains Are Taking Over
The AFSCME District Council 33 represents 9,000 city workers in Philadelphia and they began striking on July 1st, putting a stop to trash pickup. Seven ...
LL Cool J says he won’t perform at Philadelphia’s July Fourth festival in support of workers strike
Rapper LL Cool J says he will not perform at a Fourth of July festival in Philadelphia in support of a strike by nearly ...
DC 33 made concessions in 1992. Decades of resentment since led to Philadelphia’s current city worker strike.
Many AFSCME DC 33 members have been itching for the union to take a dramatic stand against the city ever since then-Mayor ...
Recap: DC 33 members struck by car, LL COOL J, Jazmine Sullivan support union
AFSCME District Council 33, Philadelphia's largest blue collar workers union, went on strike on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, ...