This is a call to action for all workers who want to defend their rights. Don’t let the bureaucrats and city officials decide your future behind closed doors!

Throughout Philadelphia’s municipal worker strike, which finally ended at about 4 a.m. Wednesday morning, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker relied upon nonunion city employees and trainees who do sanitation work to help beat back the tide of trash — including some part-timers who are training to become members of the same union that was on the picket line.

Mayor Cherelle Parker announces end to Philadelphia's city worker strike after reaching a deal with District Council 33, restoring trash pickup and reopening libraries

AFSCME District Council 33, representing more than 9,000 city employees from dispatchers to sanitation, was on strike for eight days.

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

Between 1,200 and 1,300 sanitation workers are part of the AFSCME strike for higher wages and other improvements. Private contractors are handling trash drop-offs during the strike.