Philadelphia Reaches Pact With Workers to End Garbage Strike

Philadelphia and municipal employees have hammered out an accord, ending a sanitation workers’ strike which caused trash to pile up around the city.

“We have reached a tentative agreement with District Council 33,” said Mayor Cherelle Parker in a post on X Wednesday morning. The agreement — which has to be ratified by union members — works out to a 14% pay raise when coupled with a prior contract extension, she said. “The work stoppage involving District Council 33 and the City of Philadelphia is OVER.”