Editor's note: This article is no longer being updated. For the latest on the looming strike from AFSCME District Council 33, click here. Representatives if the city's Philadelphia’s largest ...

These workers are affiliated with AFSCME District Council 47. Additionally, 14,000 public school teachers have voted to strike at the end of next month if no contract is agreed to.

We fundamentally disagree with AFSCME’s claims of bad faith bargaining and characterization of unacceptable bargaining proposals. From January to May, University of California and AFSCME bargaining ...