{"id":39155,"date":"2025-07-04T22:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T22:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39155\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T22:14:09","slug":"philadelphia-july-fourth-celebrations-clash-with-striking-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39155\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia July Fourth celebrations clash with striking workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia celebrated the Fourth of July against a backdrop of <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-largest-union-first-strike-40-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">striking municipal city workers<\/a>, who made their presence known at parades and ceremonies Friday and continued to demand higher wages in a new contract.\n<\/p>\n<p>At the Celebration of Freedom Ceremony near Independence Hall, Mayor Cherelle Parker said it was a \u201cchallenging time for our city right now\u201d and pledged to work with union leaders to reach \u201ca fair and fiscally responsible contact.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>A small group of the 9,000 members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 33 union members along with local residents stood among the crowd with signs that said, \u201cPhilly Taxpayer for DC 33\u201d and \u201cMore Work, Less Pay, No Way!\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also want to make clear that the largest pay increase proposal for District Council 33 in one term \u2014 one term, four years \u2014 this will be the largest <a href=\"https:\/\/billypenn.com\/2025\/07\/03\/philly-strike-afscme-district-council-33-updates-trash-emergency-services-libraries\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pay increase proposal<\/a> of any Philadelphia mayor in 30 years, and I want you to know I am proud of that,\u201d Parker said to applause.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[12772,5229,10202,1448,2830,1311,20789,6807,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-39155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-mayor-cherelle-parker","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-fourth-of-july","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-public-sector-unions","15":"tag-strike","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114797272346675299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}