Overview

• Talks between the Parker administration and AFSCME DC 33 resumed on Tuesday after a one-day pause, though key gaps on wages, healthcare and residency rules remain unresolved.
• The strike has halted sanitation and related services for seven days, leaving uncollected “Parker Piles” of trash across neighborhoods.
• City officials have opened additional temporary drop-off centers for residential waste and arrested illegal dumpers, including a business disposing of rotten chicken and unused oil.
• DC 33 is preparing to file an unfair labor practice complaint against the city, and union activists staged protests at City Hall that led to defiant trespassing charges.
• Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s last public offer matches earlier terms of 2.75%, 3% and 3% raises over three years, while she refuses to relax the residency requirement.