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BOTTOM LINE: The New York Red Bulls visit the Philadelphia Union after playing to a draw in three straight games. The Union are 10-3-3 against Eastern Conference opponents. The Union are third in the Eastern Conference with 107 shots on goal, averaging 5.1 per game.
Philadelphia Union II announced today that their home match against FC Cincinnati 2, originally scheduled for 3:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, August 3, will now kick off at 6:00 p.m. ET. The match at Subaru Park will be broadcast on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV.
Two MLS mainstays look to lock in a spot in the U.S. Open Cup Semifinals, as the Philadelphia Union take on the New York Red Bulls in the in quarterfinal action on Wednesday night.
District Council 33 and the Parker administration last negotiated for hours on Saturday, but the two sides weren't able to make a deal.
Philadelphia officials and members of the city's union representing blue-collar workers resumed negotiations Tuesday as residents grew increasingly frustrated with garbage piling up on the streets.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — As trash and tempers heat up across Philadelphia on Day 8 of a strike by blue-collar city workers Tuesday, some residents and small business owners are hiring pop-up hauling services to clear their blocks of garbage, even as they broadly support the union’s quest for higher pay.
When over 200 city workers were laid off in September 1938, city workers called a weeklong sanitation strike. Street battles raged in West Philadelphia when strikers blocked police-escorted trash wagons that were aiming to collect trash with workers hired to replace the strikers.
Here's a timeline breaking down everything we know so far about the labor talks between District Council 33 and the city of.