District Council 33 Strike Day 8 with no deal
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Members of District Council 33 will start voting Monday on the tentative agreement with the city. Meanwhile, there are still concerns about trash as temporary dump sites are being phased out and residents are waiting for curbside pickup to resume.
Philadelphia's largest labor union, AFSCME District Council 33, is getting ready to cast votes to decide if a new contract will be ratified.
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, County and Municipal Employees District Council 33,
The members of District Council 33 headed back to work on Thursday, but say they're frustrated with the tentative contract agreement.
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.
Trash pickup is scheduled to resume in Philadelphia on Monday after the DC 33 strike ended, but neighbors say some people are still dropping off garbage.
The contract, if ratified by DC 33's membership, is retroactive to July 1. After more than a week on strike and several stalled negotiation sessions, leaders of Philadelphia’s largest municipal union came to an agreement with the city, returning some 9,000 blue collar workers to the job.
Francis Ryan, a professor at Rutgers University, believes District Council 33 got the best deal it could with.