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Magisterial District Judge John H. Fishel won the award for his service to the Special Court Judges Association of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia's largest municipal union reaches tentative deal with Mayor Cherelle Parker, ending 8-day strike affecting 9,000 ...
Four presidents have been assassinated in office − Abraham Lincoln and James Garfield in the 19th century and William ...
AFSCME District Council 33, representing more than 9,000 city employees from dispatchers to sanitation, was on strike for ...
Philadelphia's first major city worker strike since 1986 lasted eight days and four hours before Mayor Cherelle L. Parker and ...
The strike by thousands of Philadelphia city workers ended early Wednesday morning, Mayor Cherelle Parker announced on social ...
Sarah Giskin is a Former AFSCME DC 47 & Unity Caucus Member. The following article was written while the strike was on-going.
City officials say they're hoping to reopen the municipal pools closed by the strike by Monday.
AFSCME District Council 33 leaders and Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration have reached a tentative contract agreement, ...
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.
According to MIT, Philadelphia's striking workers earn more than $2,000 less than the living wage for a single adult in the ...