Striking city workers are joining picket lines outside Philadelphia City Hall, public libraries and other worksites as nearly 10,000 unionized employees walked off the job in search of better pay and benefits.

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 an immediate and indefinite work stoppage of the more than 9,

A strike by AFSCME District Council 33, Philadelphia’s largest city workers’ union, is disrupting trash pickup, delaying 911 response, and halting water service repairs.