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Boston is ready for a WNBA franchise, and waiting (hoping) for another round of expansion
WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced this past week the league will expand to 18 teams with the additions/returns of ...
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Mayor Parker, unwavering in negotiations, dangles holiday pay incentive to end strike
Mayor Cherelle Parker is trying to end the DC33 union worker strike by Fourth of July with both the carrot and stick ...
'If that means I'm a one-term mayor, then so be it:' Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker puts it all on the line in city workers strike
Mayor Cherelle L. Parker is putting it all on the line. In a fiery news conference on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of ...
No, Mayor Parker didn’t give herself ‘a 9% raise’ — but she did dole out big raises to aides
Mayor Cherelle L. Parker rejected a false claim from striking workers that she gave herself a 9% pay raise – although her pay ...
Philadelphia braces for major city worker union strike as contract talks continue and deadline draws nearer
Representatives from AFSCME District Council 33 and Mayor Cherelle Parker's administration resumed talks Monday night to ...
Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration and AFSCME DC 33 met for the second time since the strike began. There’s still no deal.
Union president Greg Boulware stepped out of a conference room in a community college campus in West Philadelphia and sat ...
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Philadelphia workers union goes on strike; Mayor Parker says city is ready
The AFSCME District Council 33, which represents around 9,000 of the city's municipal workers, has now gone on strike, ...
“We need universal solidarity”: Striking Philadelphia city workers denounce poverty pay, as Democratic mayor seeks injunction
The Parker government’s attack is part of an effort to isolate and weaken the workers under conditions where there is mass ...
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Chauncey Parker named deputy mayor for public safety
Parker, who has served as assistant deputy mayor for public safety since July, will step into the role vacated by Phil Banks, who resigned last week amid a flurry of Adams administration exits.
Spectrum News NY14d
Thousands of city workers are on strike in Philadelphia but judge orders some back to work
Parker, a pro-labor Democrat, promised that Fourth of July celebrations in the nation’s birthplace would go on as usual. In a statement Tuesday, the mayor said the city had “put its best offer ...