Overview

• The four-day strike by over 9,000 city workers has halted sanitation, emergency dispatch and other essential services across Philadelphia.
• Court orders forcing some medical examiner and water department staff back to work have only partially reduced service backlogs.
• LL Cool J and Jazmine Sullivan withdrew from the Wawa Welcome America Festival in solidarity with strikers, refusing to cross picket lines.
• The city’s proposal of about 3% annual raises over three years was rejected by the union as insufficient to meet living wage demands.
• Negotiators for Mayor Cherelle Parker and AFSCME District Council 33 remain deadlocked as residents await resumed talks and restored public services.