Lisa Hornung at United Press International reports the City Workers' Strike in Philadelphia is set to end after the City and the Union reached a tentative agreement, Mayor Cherelle Parker announced early this morning (Wednesday, June 9th). The Workers, who are Members of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) District Council 33, have been on Strike for eight days, and garbage has piled up in the City. The Strike began on July 1st when the City refused AFSCME’s request for 15% raises over the next year. The Union represents about 9,000 City Workers. The striking Workers should return to work today, but the City hasn't offered details about how it plans to clean up the growing trash crisis. The agreement adds to the one-year agreement made last Fall and it will "increase (DC 33) Members' pay by fourteen-percent over my four years in office," Parker's statement said. The tentative agreement must still be ratified by Union Members.

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