Philadelphia’s largest city workers’ union is on strike for the first time in nearly 40 years on Tuesday after a deal couldn’t be reached with the city.

AFSCME District Council 33, which represents thousands of city workers, including trash collectors and police dispatchers, is walking off the job after negotiations didn’t end in a deal. The union last went on a strike in 1986.

Here’s what you need to know about the strike and how it will affect Philadelphia.
District Council 33 represents about 9,000 city workers in services handled by the Sanitation Department, Water Department, Police Dispatch, Streets Department, maintenance at the airport and more. The union left Monday morning’s negotiations with the Parker administration without a new contract in place.

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