Mayor Cherelle Parker said the city would suspend residential trash collection and close some city pools but vowed to keep the city running.

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

Philadelphia residents have been warned to brace for a largescale workers' strike designed to shut down key infrastructure, such as garbage removal, starting Tuesday. Roughly 9,000 staff belonging to the city workers' union―the American Federation of State,