PHILADELPHIA—Members of Philadelphia’s largest city workers’ union took to the streets on Wednesday, the second day of a strike for higher pay and improved benefits.
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees District Council 33 (DC 33) represents more than 9,000 blue-collar workers.
Sanitation workers, librarians, water treatment employees, and 911 dispatchers gathered on a drizzly morning near City Hall, at libraries, and outside the Broad Street police station, waving placards and chanting, “Decent! Wages!”
Negotiations between DC 33 and the mayor broke down late Monday evening.
On Tuesday, Judge Sierra Thomas-Street of the Court of Common Pleas issued an injunction against some parts of the strike, ordering many of the 911 dispatchers back to work to ensure public safety….