{"id":50188,"date":"2025-07-09T01:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/50188\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T01:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:43:09","slug":"philadelphia-mayor-absent-from-latest-media-briefing-as-city-workers-strike-enters-second-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/50188\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia mayor absent from latest media briefing as city workers strike enters second week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker was noticeably absent Monday afternoon when city officials gave their latest briefing addressing the ongoing strike of District Council 33<\/a> union members. Instead, Carlton Williams, director of the city’s Clean and Green Department<\/a>, took questions from reporters.<\/p>\n

CBS News Philadelphia asked city officials why Parker did not attend the Monday briefing. A spokesperson for the mayor’s office said in an email, “We don’t discuss communications strategies. \u2026 We wanted Director Williams to give a full trash update to the public.”<\/p>\n

As of 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, city officials did not have a press briefing scheduled, marking the first business day without a press conference since the start of the strike on July 1.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, another injunction filed by the city ordering some striking union members back to work was granted by a judge Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

This time, it’s airport dispatchers being told to get back on the job.<\/p>\n

This marks the fourth order by a judge requiring some union members to return to work.<\/p>\n

This latest one mandated eight airport dispatchers from Philadelphia International to return to work by Tuesday afternoon. These workers operate much like 911 dispatchers for the airport.<\/p>\n

On the first day of the strike on July 1, a judge ordered about 230 911 dispatchers to return to work<\/a>, along with enough staff at the Philadelphia Water Department to keep operations afloat.<\/p>\n

Then on Thursday, about 30 workers in the Medical Examiner’s Office were ordered to get back on the job<\/a> after the city filed an injunction saying there was a backlog of dead bodies because some workers were on strike.<\/p>\n

Francis Ryan, a labor historian from Rutgers University, said the injunction requests from the city are to be expected during a union strike<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asked if sanitation workers could be ordered back to work, Ryan said, “It’s possible.”<\/p>\n

“That did happen in 1986, this is a different strike, this is a different historical moment than 1986, though. I think that what makes this strike so unique is it’s happening in the time of social media, and I think that the union has leveraged social media in such a way that there’s a lot of public support,” Ryan said. “More public support than I’ve seen in the historical record going back to 1938.”<\/p>\n

CBS News Philadelphia asked the city how much it’s paying contractors to pick up the trash from the dumpster sites, but a spokesperson said they don’t have that figure yet.<\/p>\n

\n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n

Liz Crawford<\/a><\/p>\n

Liz Crawford, a Jersey native, is thrilled to join CBS News Philadelphia, returning to her roots to share community stories and hold the powerful accountable. Liz brings a passion for storytelling and a deep connection to the communities she serves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker was noticeably absent Monday afternoon when city officials gave their latest briefing addressing the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,20497,1448,2830,1311,6807,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-50188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cherelle-parker","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-strike","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114820743759822564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50188","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=50188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}