When working people get less, AFSCME demands more. More safety on the job. More respect in the workplace. More power at the bargaining table. We’re built for this fight and we’re ready to remind the world who we are. | AFSCME

The Philadelphia city worker strike of 2025 has begun. Greg Boulware, president of District Council 33 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, called for the immediate and indefinite work stoppage late Monday night. Boulware’s move dramatically increases the stakes of the already-tense negotiations between Parker’s team and DC 33, the lowest-paid of Philly’s four major municipal unions and the only one in which a majority of members are Black. The talks have largely