Overview

• Negotiators from AFSCME District Council 33 and city officials returned to the bargaining table on Day 8 but remain deadlocked over the union’s call for 5% annual raises versus the city’s offer of under 9% over three years.
• Common Pleas Court Judge Sierra Thomas-Street granted the city’s petition to compel eight emergency dispatchers at Philadelphia International and Northeast airports to resume their shifts starting Wednesday.
• Mayor Cherelle Parker has deployed hundreds of Future Track trainees, CLIP crews and private contractors to staff more than 60 temporary trash drop-off sites and clear street refuse.
• Residents and small business owners have turned to pop-up hauling services to remove uncollected garbage from neighborhoods as city sanitation remains suspended.
• Sunrise Movement Philadelphia activists dumped trash inside City Hall in solidarity with the strike, leading to three arrests on defiant trespassing charges.